Anna, I would only be concerned if you catch more than one in a few month period. It is most likely a stray from outdoors that accidentally got inside.
It's a predator and if you have a population of predators surviving & breeding inside that means there's enough prey inside to keep them alive - which would be a problem. -Derek On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 6:55 AM 'Anna McCann' via MuseumPests < pestlist@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi Pestlist, > > > > I am based in a museum in Ireland and was just checking the sticky traps > in our temporary display gallery today and found a devil coach horse > beetle. It is still alive so it is a recent enough catch. Is this an > indication of something I should be concerned about as I have read they > live on decaying carcasses and tend to live in leaves / outdoors. 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