I recently came across an unmounted herbarium specimen with same pattern of burrowing/feeding on the paper enclosing the specimen. Although it appears the infestation had not been active for decades, I did find frass and cigarette beetles with the specimen. The specimen was placed in the freezer for a week as a precaution.
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