Unpopular Museum-Goer - _TNY_8634S2
The very small museum beetle (Anthrenus museorum) isn't named that way because of its notable cultural interests. Instead, this species feeds on things like skin, fur and hides on dead animals - which makes it a not very popular visitor (and soon inhabitant) of places like a museum of natural history where they can cause quite a lot of damage to the collections.
It isn't the adult beetle like this one which eats it, but rather the larvae.
Body length here is somewhere between 2 and 3 mm and this was shot at 3.7:1 magnification and is a two-exposure focus stack for a little extra DoF.
Unpopular Museum-Goer - _TNY_8634S2
The very small museum beetle (Anthrenus museorum) isn't named that way because of its notable cultural interests. Instead, this species feeds on things like skin, fur and hides on dead animals - which makes it a not very popular visitor (and soon inhabitant) of places like a museum of natural history where they can cause quite a lot of damage to the collections.
It isn't the adult beetle like this one which eats it, but rather the larvae.
Body length here is somewhere between 2 and 3 mm and this was shot at 3.7:1 magnification and is a two-exposure focus stack for a little extra DoF.