Thank you very much, Joel and Tom! This will help a lot. Best Angelica On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 12:09, 'bugman22' via Museumpests < [email protected]> wrote:
> In photos 3 & 4, the large, winged black ants are carpenter ant queens. > You can easily tell by the flat-topped thorax. > > Tom Parker > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Voron, Joel <[email protected]> > To: Museumpests <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Nov 20, 2018 9:39 am > Subject: Re: [pestlist] Moth parasites and swarm? > > They look like parasitic wasps to me not sure what flavor. JTV > > *Joel Voron **Colonial Williamsburg Foundation* > Conservation Dept. > Integrated Pest Management > Office 757-220-7080 > Cell 757-634-1175 > E-Mail [email protected] > > [image: 1474552137245_IMG_0499.JPG] > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf > of a.isa14022 <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2018 9:34:45 AM > *To:* Museumpests > *Subject:* [pestlist] Moth parasites and swarm? > > Dear all, > > I hope you can help me out with this. > > The pictures called MothParasites1 and 2 were the result of me taking some > case moth cases and putting them into a small container with holes in them > with some of the rat poison we had been putting out because I wanted to > confirm that the moths were indeed eating the poison. I had found some > turquoise coloured frass associated with cases in some traps. However, I > came back after two months and instead found those two wasp-like insects in > there and was hoping someone might be able to identify them. > > The pictures called Swarm 1 and 3 were literally found in a very large > swarm in the materials storage space all over some cardboard boxes when we > cleaned out the area. There is nothing else in that storage space other > than boxes, bags, tools, paper, Ethafoam rolls, etc. I have no idea what > they are or why they would have been present in such large numbers in that > space. I don't think they'd be a museum pest, but I wonder if they eat > museum pests? > > Thank you! > > Angelica > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Museumpests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/fc7d49da-4900-41f9-8d98-7395f5f8e0fa%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/fc7d49da-4900-41f9-8d98-7395f5f8e0fa%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Museumpests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/BN6PR05MB31226DD26D8EAC4B15669B36DCD90%40BN6PR05MB3122.namprd05.prod.outlook.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/BN6PR05MB31226DD26D8EAC4B15669B36DCD90%40BN6PR05MB3122.namprd05.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Museumpests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/1613097412.3604401.1542733745022%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/1613097412.3604401.1542733745022%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAAJvYjUQgyfvouqAkd73qTxqOAW39--41zQAcprRxmgVcUzE5Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
