Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

2022-10-27 Thread Christina Bisulca
ist@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thu, Oct 27, 2022 12:41 pm > Subject: Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office > > Hello - > I actually also found remains of dermestids under cubicle walls, and it > was fairly dusty. Most of the food we found was carbohydrate (bread > crusts, raisins

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

2022-10-27 Thread 'bugman22' via MuseumPests
rever they want. Tom Parker -Original Message- From: Christina Bisulca To: pestlist@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Oct 27, 2022 12:41 pm Subject: Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office Hello - I actually also found remains of dermestids under cubicle walls, and it was fairly dusty.  Most o

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

2022-10-27 Thread 'bugman22' via MuseumPests
From: Todd Holmberg To: pestlist@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Oct 27, 2022 11:39 am Subject: Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office Christina- Thanks for the heads up regarding your experience with the cubicle walls- "real life/specific" examples like this where institutions are seeing mot

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

2022-10-27 Thread Christina Bisulca
Hello - I actually also found remains of dermestids under cubicle walls, and it was fairly dusty. Most of the food we found was carbohydrate (bread crusts, raisins, a lot of M&Ms...). I only pulled dust/refuse out of a few areas to really look at, the office spaces are the entire third floor. So

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

2022-10-27 Thread Todd Holmberg
Christina- Thanks for the heads up regarding your experience with the cubicle walls- "real life/specific" examples like this where institutions are seeing moths in offices are so valuable to be mindful of when investigating potential causes. Regarding the "food" part of the email. I have always b

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

2022-10-27 Thread Christina Bisulca
Hello - We've dealt with a similar issue at my institution with webbing clothes moths in office areas - I'm just mentioning in case it helps anyone else. We found the source of the infestation was actually under the cubicle walls - with people eating at their desks, food that fell onto the floor w

Re: [PestList] Clothes moth in office

2022-10-27 Thread 'bugman22' via MuseumPests
'Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace)' via MuseumPests To: pestlist@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Oct 27, 2022 8:20 am Subject: [PestList] Clothes moth in office #yiv1164622258 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Hello all, We just discovered a clothes moth outbreak in a rarely used office in our buildin

[PestList] Clothes moth in office

2022-10-27 Thread 'Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace)' via MuseumPests
Hello all, We just discovered a clothes moth outbreak in a rarely used office in our building. There are no specimens in this office, and I am not quite sure what they are eating - casings are around the edge of the carpet, which I do not think is wool. Perhaps they are feeding on dead insects