This seems to be a rarely encountered beetle in Nottinghamshire, with
apparently just a handful of recent records from Nottingham Trent
University's Brackenhurst Campus in 2017
(Heeney, W.) from Carlton in 2016 and
from a Tawny Owl nest at Centre Parcs in 2019
(both Dutton, A.) and from some old
livestock sheds at Vexation Lane near Rufford in 2020
(Pendleton, T.A.) where the one below was
found in very old, dry straw and other materials.
It is a serious pest
of stored grain and flour stores, poultry rearing facilities and other
buildings were livestock is housed
and is known to be an important vector of a number of poultry pathogens
and parasites rthat can affect human health. |
