[Nhcoll-l] Outdoor Dermestid Beetle Colony

[Scott Swann]

I have kept mine in a regular chest freezer with a commercial  heater from
a pet store. It's worked well. Typically I purchase a colony and raise them
in a 10 gal fish tank on beef jerky until the colony gets up to size and I
can introduce them into the freezer.

Scott

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:32 AM Barry OConnor <bmoc at umich.edu> wrote:

> Be sure whatever you construct is really bug proof. Some years ago during
> a building renovation, we moved our colony to the roof of the museum.
> Despite precautions, “wild” dermestids were able to invade and brought in a
> mite that almost wiped the colony out.
> - Barry
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Barry M. OConnor
> Emeritus Curator & Professor
> University of Michigan
> Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
> Museum of Zoology
> Research Museums Center
> 3600 Varsity Drive
> Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2888
> Phone: 734-763-4354
> E-mail: bmoc at umich.edu
>
> > On Jun 18, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Dakota Rowsey <drowsey at asu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hello:
> >
> > Arizona State University Biocollections is looking into buying/building
> an outdoor dermestid beetle enclosure. Does anyone have any experience in
> keeping an active outdoor colony? I am interested in finding ways to
> keeping the area at an optimal temperature and humidity (the structure
> itself would be under a shade canopy, but I still worry about diel
> temperature fluctuations), as well as keeping the area dark and keeping out
> other unwanted pests.
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> > Dakota Rowsey
> >
> > --
> > Dakota M. Rowsey, Ph.D. (he/his)
> > Currently: Brown Postdoctoral Fellow, Field Museum of Natural History
> > Soon: Vertebrate Collections Manager, Arizona State University
> Biocollections
> >
> >
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