[Leica] To renew an older question - Film eating beetles

["C.L.Zeni" <clzeni@mindspring.com>]

The Drugstore Beetle, from my friend Dr Bug.

>To: clzeni@mindspring.com
>From: James.W.Smith@aphis.usda.gov
>Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:27:18 -0400
>
>
>http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/stored/drugstore_beetle.htm
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>This guy is about the only insect I know of that will attack film emulsion 
>-- it can
>eat 47 known human poisons w/o harm.  I once had a colony that I 
>maintained on rat poison!
>It especially likes belladonna and strychnine.

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