Thanks, Lou! I'm also trying my best to find moths from Asia and Africa, so if anyone has any contacts they could connect me with there, I would be very grateful!
I ________________________________ From: pestlist@googlegroups.com <pestlist@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Louis N Sorkin <sor...@amnh.org> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2021 2:13 PM To: pestlist@googlegroups.com <pestlist@googlegroups.com> Subject: [PestList] Re: Request for Moths Hi Isabel, If I come across any, I will forward to you. As Gretchen noted: "Actually, they are considered a major pest for many museum and historic house museum collections and spaces, particularly damaging to anything made out of wool, hair, feather, skin, natural history specimens etc. Most museums are susceptible to an infestation, both in collections storage and in the materials used to dress up exhibitions. In one case, an art museum had an ongoing challenge of the wool rugs used stage exhibition areas and the wool carpeting in their auditorium". Don't forget that natural populations of clothes moths can be found on other items. If anticoagulant rodent baits are or have been used, you may be "seeding" the area with rodent corpses. When these dry out, they are very attractive to webbing clothes moths and also dermestids. Unfortunately, rodent corpses can typically be found in overlooked and hard-to-reach areas. See attached pictures of rodent carcasses with caterpillar silk, empty pupal cases and fecal droppings. The smell isn't bad from dried out carcasses but is strong from fresh ones. Lou Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. (Retired) Entomologist, Arachnologist, Myriapodologist Insect Cuisine & Entomophagy Research [cid:a05f8a06-6c22-40dc-8b2f-2054c59ad8dd] Visiting Scientist | Division of Invertebrate Zoology | American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street | New York, New York 10024-5192 email: sor...@amnh.org<mailto:sor...@amnh.org> 212-769-5613 voice | 212-769-5277 fax | 917-953-0094 pager-voicemail-text https://www.messagemanager.americanmessaging.net/SendMessageFree.aspx https://www.amnh.org/research/invertebrate-zoology/staff/collections-staff/louis-n.-sorkin https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louis_Sorkin [cid:ec06033a-9e24-4f4d-b230-5c5a0b5e7f35] The New York Entomological Society, Inc. Treasurer & Monthly Meeting Organizer www.nyentsoc.org<http://www.nyentsoc.org/> n...@amnh.org<mailto:n...@amnh.org> [cid:acef51ea-e050-47e0-baee-d7320a6cc235] ________________________________ From: pestlist@googlegroups.com <pestlist@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Novick, Isabel <inov...@bu.edu> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:50 AM To: Museumpests <pestlist@googlegroups.com> Subject: [PestList] Request for Moths EXTERNAL SENDER Hi pest people, You may remember some of my previous emails requesting webbing clothes moths from all over the globe. Here is one more! I am a PhD student at Boston University studying the biogeography and synanthropic evolution of the wcm. For a robust study, I need moth samples from all around the globe. I will be sequencing their DNA and comparing them to each other in the hopes of finding some population structure. So far, I still have not had a ton of luck getting samples, so I am switching up my methodology. If this project interests you, send me an email and I will send you a premade kit containing pheromone baited trap, vials of ethanol for preservation, and a return shipping label. Even if you don't think you have moths, if you are interested in any way, let me know and I will send you a trap. All you have to do is set the trap out, date it, and leave it for about 2 months. I will send you a reminder once the two months are up to send me the trap back. Even if there is only one moth on there, I will be overjoyed to receive it. I will also include a hand drawn picture of a moth. Am I a good artist? Not at all. Am I desperate for international samples of webbing clothes moths? Absolutely. Please let me know if this is something you'd like to contribute to! I would be eternally grateful! All the best, Isabel Novick inov...@bu.edu 720-454-8058 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. 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