A natural history and gardening blog based on our garden in Pensby, Wirral, Cheshire, but with very occasional excursions farther afield.
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Museum Beetle
I have previously featured the Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci) on this blog but never the slightly smaller Museum Beetle (Anthrenus museorum) which I found today on a Mock Orange flower. This is a pest of museum collections where its larvae feed on materials containing chitin and keratin such as dried specimens.
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