Spider beetles

Cathy Aster <aster [at] hoover__stanford__edu> writes

>Has anyone had a problem with a spider beetle infestation in a
>library/archive collection storage area?.......

There was an answer to this question dealing with spiders. Spider
beetles (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) are, in contrast to the spiders,
insects, although the adult beetles look almost like spiders at a
quick glance. There are several species and they are distributed all
over the word. The larvae can eat almost everything including fur,
feathers, plants, seed and insect collections. Many (all?) species
will make a small cavity in hard material, wood, books etc when the
larva goes into the pupal stage.

Jan-Erik Bergh
Swedish working group PRE-MAL

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