I once worked in a historic house museum, in which one of the interpretive
staff decided to store a bag of flour in their locked file cabinet. It took
us forever to find out where the flour beetles were coming from. There were a
lot……
So yes….it all depends on what’s IN the museum…. 😊
Thank
If there are their types of food items in the exhibits (artwork of edible
items) or snacks brought and forgotten by visitors or employees or in (pest)
rodent food caches, then could be a typical museum pest.
Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. (Retired)
Entomologist, Arachnologist, Myriapodologist
Foren
Hello Ian and pestlisters
We also have the same moth in our library as you can see. Some years ago,
in 2018 was the first time that it appeared in our sticky traps, and was
identified as monopis obviella. this year there is a bit more population.
Does anybody know the habits of this moth? May we b
