Insects

[Tony Caught]

Hi Jim

What do you mean "It likes dry weather" maybe we have a different carpet
beetle, you know furry tear drop shaped things.

I live in Darwin Australia. At present (sticking hand outside into the air)
it is 33 degrees Celsius and 92%relative humidity.

At the end of the day I expect that the little bug........s will have eaten
out another piano.

Don't know why but they seem particularly active in high humid seasons.

Naphalene flakes kill them, they are not that robust but boy, do they stink.
Can eat out a key board in one season and a piano in three.

Tony Caught caute@accessnt.com.au

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Coleman, Sr. <pianotoo@imap2.asu.edu>
To: <bases-loaded@juno.com>
Cc: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, 2 December 1999 3:23
Subject: Re: Insects


> Hi Mark:
>
> In our area, we have only two kinds of bugs that do this type of damage.
> The carpet beetle is a furry little thing, not as long as a center pin,
> but a little thicker. It likes dry weather. The other kind are moths which
> do not grow here in Arizona but usually come with a piano from someplace
> else. They leave a thinner exoskeleton, which is about as long as a
> clipped centerpin and about that thick. Both of these just love untreated
> felt. Color does not seem to bother them one way or the other. Their
> excretions will be the same color as the felt which they ate. Hungry
little
> buggers they are.
>
> Jim Coleman, Sr.
>