Biology, behaviour and environmentally sustainable control of Tineola bisselliella (Hummel) (Lepidoptera: Tineidae)

Cox, P.D.; Pinniger, David

doi:10.1016/j.jspr.2005.08.004

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“…A few species of moths are found inside buildings and are important pests, predominantly the webbing clothes moth ( Tineola bisselliella ), which is probably the most important pest on textiles, fur and feathers [ 25 , 26 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 ]. The webbing clothes moth is a pest on the textiles of animal wool (sheep or goat for example), fur, feathers, hair, felt, silk, carpets, rugs, blankets, upholstery, piano felts, fishmeal, milk powder, brush bristles, but often also come from dust [ 25 ].…”

Section: Insect Pests Found In Museumsmentioning

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Insect Pests and Integrated Pest Management in Museums, Libraries and Historic Buildings

Querner

2015

Insects

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Insect pests are responsible for substantial damage to museum objects, historic books and in buildings like palaces or historic houses. Different wood boring beetles (Anobium punctatum, Hylotrupes bajulus, Lyctus sp. or introduced species), the biscuit beetle (Stegobium paniceum), the cigarette beetle (Lasioderma serricorne), different Dermestides (Attagenus sp., Anthrenus sp., Dermestes sp., Trogoderma sp.), moths like the webbing clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella), Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) and booklice (Psocoptera) can damage materials, objects or building parts. They are the most common pests found in collections in central Europe, but most of them are distributed all over the world. In tropical countries, termites, cockroaches and other insect pests are also found and result in even higher damage of wood and paper or are a commune annoyance in buildings. In this short review, an introduction to Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in museums is given, the most valuable collections, preventive measures, monitoring in museums, staff responsible for the IPM and chemical free treatment methods are described. In the second part of the paper, the most important insect pests occurring in museums, archives, libraries and historic buildings in central Europe are discussed with a description of the materials and object types that are mostly infested and damaged. Some information on their phenology and biology are highlighted as they can be used in the IPM concept against them.

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Section: Insect Pests Found In Museumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Insect Pests and Integrated Pest Management in Museums, Libraries and Historic Buildings

Querner

2015

Insects

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“…However, the population density of the actively feeding Tinea pellionella is unusual. In urban areas, Tineola bisselliella is considered to be a more common pest (17,18). In this case report, we record that they compose nearly half of the total nonpuparial insect diversity (44.7%; Table 1), and it is the first record of this kind for this species.…”

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Insect Successional Pattern of a Corpse in Cooler Months of Subtropical Southeastern Texas

Bucheli

Bytheway

Pustilnik

et al. 2009

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Here, we characterize the cool weather insect fauna found associated with partially skeletonized and desiccated human remains recovered from an abandoned house in an urban area of subtropical, coastal Galveston County, Texas, and use the information to conclude an approximate postmortem interval of 7-10 months. The predominant factors that allow for a confident assessment of the postmortem interval include climatological data, entomological data, and anthropological data. The documented insect fauna represents a unique assemblage present in a particular environment (an urban abandoned house in coastal Texas) at a particular time of year (winter) and includes expected forensically significant insects such as calliphorid flies, muscid flies, and dermestid beetles but also includes less commonly encountered insects such as an unusually dense population of live case-making clothes moths.

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“…For example, in his summary of bibliographies on nidicolous insects Hicks (1959) lists 15 references to T. bisselliella findings in bird nests. Thus, in secondary and tertiary literature, it is often listed as a common species in bird nests (Niethammer, 1937;Uhlmann, 1937Uhlmann, /1938Hinton, 1956, Petersen, 1969Hannemann, 1977;Klausnitzer, 1988;Pinniger, 2001;Cox & Pinniger, 2007). Our own studies of the listed original references, however, do not allow for this general conclusion.…”

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An attempt to reconstruct the natural and cultural history of the webbing clothes moth Tineola bisselliella Hummel (Lepidoptera: Tineidae)

Plarre¹,

Krüger-Carstensen²

2011

J Entomol Acarol Res

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-It is generally accepted that the natural habitats of most pest insects can be found outside the synanthropic environment in layers of leaf litter, under bark, as well as in rodent or bird nests. Indeed, most of the common pests have been reported as being facultative nidicolous. Therefore infestation of commodities by pest insects out of these reservoirs is one considerable possibility. However, the likelihood of a pest´s occurrence and survival out-doors largely depends on its ecological potential and competitiveness against other species of the same ecological guild. Some pest species are rarely found in wild habitats, especially in those regions where they are not native and where they have been introduced by man. The fabric pest Tineola bisselliella serves as a good example. Most likely originating in Central or Southern Africa this insect was introduced into Europe probably not earlier than the late 18 th century. Being more tolerant to dry environments than other fabric pests its economical importance increased during the 20 th century when in-door climates changed because of central heating systems. Its occurrence in out-door natural habitats must be regarded as accidental. Reported founds of webbing clothes moth larvae in bird nests e.g. have been largely overstated in the literature. T. bisselliella should be regarded as an eusynanthropic species.Key words: evolution, pest insect, phylogeny, synanthropy. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGYThe adult webbing clothes moth is a small moth that ranges in size from 4 to 9 mm and weighs up to 16 mg (Kemper, 1935;Hannemann, 1977;Becker, 1983). The head and the rest of the body are covered with long hair. The rusty yellow head hairs point towards the front. The eyes are black. The mouth parts are reduced, the mandibles are rudimentary, the maxillary palps are very short or missing, and only the labial palps are apparent and well developed (Fig. 1). The wings are lanceolate and are fringed at their ends and rear edges. The forewings are yellowish, and the hind wings are grayishyellow. There are no striking markings on the wings. The wingspan ranges between 12 to 16 mm. In flight, the hind wings are interlinked through a setaceous frenulum to the retinaculum of the forewings. The male moths are generally smaller than the female moths and have a few small tufts of hair on the last three abdominal segments.

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Biology, behaviour and environmentally sustainable control of Tineola bisselliella (Hummel) (Lepidoptera: Tineidae)

Cited by 32 publications

References 86 publications

Insect Pests and Integrated Pest Management in Museums, Libraries and Historic Buildings

Insect Pests and Integrated Pest Management in Museums, Libraries and Historic Buildings

Insect Successional Pattern of a Corpse in Cooler Months of Subtropical Southeastern Texas

An attempt to reconstruct the natural and cultural history of the webbing clothes moth Tineola bisselliella Hummel (Lepidoptera: Tineidae)

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