Thank you for your answers. Thomas, we're in Lima, Peru. The museum is about 30km south of the city. These are our rough what3words coordinates <https://w3w.co/remembrance.dedicated.aided>. The climate is akin to San Francisco, with a desertic coast but constant cloud cover and common fog.
Thank you, Tony. Yes, I am very wary of Google photos since I never know for sure what they're showing. Thank you for your thoughts! I just found on an entomology page from the Univ. of Florida that *Phereoeca* are actually parasitised by *Apanteles carpatus*, which we have had identified by an entomologist in our stores, so this is great news. Best, Angélica On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 15:17, Tony Irwin <dr.tony.ir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Angélica > Your cases certainly look like *Phereoeca, *rather than *Tinea*. > Please be wary of Google photos - many of the identifications are > incorrect - you need to be doubtful of any that are not posted from an > experienced entomologist. > Cheers > Tony > > > Dr A.G.Irwin > 47 The Avenues > Norwich > Norfolk NR2 3PH > England > > mobile: +44(0)7880707834 > phone: +44(0)1603 453524 > > > On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 20:52, Angelica Isa-Adaniya <a.isa14...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear pest list, >> >> I hope you are all doing well. I recently came across a moth I hadn't >> heard of before called *Phereoeca uterella* or plaster moth / household >> casebearer and it suddenly struck me that perhaps the case moths I am used >> to finding at work are in fact that and not the *T. pellionella* that I >> thought. Unfortunately for me, the fact sheet for *P. uterella *doesn't >> seem to be up on the museum pests website yet. >> >> I had always wondered about this ID because we find a lot of our cases >> stuck to our poured concrete walls even in spaces where there are no >> exposed objects. I wasn't sure what they were eating. The cases have this >> grainy quality under the microscope which doesn't look like threads or >> wool-derived, and the cases are rather flat instead of tubular (pumpkinseed >> shaped, as described on Wiki). The cases we find are always white or very >> light grey. We also tend to find them grouped around the other insects in >> our traps, suggesting they are eating the bodies of the dead insects. This >> said, I don't believe I have ever, in 5 years, seen a moth in our traps >> that looked as dark as the *P. uterella* adult according to the Google >> photos. I attach a few images. >> >> Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated. >> >> >> Thank you! >> >> -- >> *Angélica Isa-Adaniya* | Conservator >> *Email* | a.isa14...@gmail.com <a.isa...@gmail.com> >> Feel free to connect with me on my Website <http://angelicaisa.com/> | >> Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelicaisaadaniya/> | Twitter >> <https://twitter.com/ConservaLlama> | Altminster <http://altminster.com/> >> >> -- >> 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 pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAAJvYjVpUKvJtJLa6D2KLaKW717z-6%2B3PAbXLgtxmRCojoEaSA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAAJvYjVpUKvJtJLa6D2KLaKW717z-6%2B3PAbXLgtxmRCojoEaSA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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 pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAFWqZKN4FT3myYSQiaeOpqG9QnNj0OB2Z%3Dxc4rMsBFzvr69w1w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAFWqZKN4FT3myYSQiaeOpqG9QnNj0OB2Z%3Dxc4rMsBFzvr69w1w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAAJvYjVAru6tC2szO40eJAqfViyY5Y-056HAgd2-RRkM-ciz2A%40mail.gmail.com.
