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In Reply to: bed bugs infestations in vintage components posted by raq on March 8, 2015 at 04:48:43:
All of the old stuff you guys covet, including vinyl record album covers, may serve as shelter for insects and a nursery for their eggs.
In particular, ants are well known to be extremely attracted to electrical fields.
For silverfish, paper album covers and sleeves are a meal and a home.
For all insects, any crevice serves as a nesting site. To insects, there's no such thing as an off-limits audio component. There's only opportunity. For a thrilling, though fictional, insight into the lives of insects, see any of the Alien movies.
Remember, insects are different from mammals. They've evolved differently, and they are completely different animals. As shocking as some may find it, there's no such thing as a "baby" insect. Instead, insects go through several bodily transformations [much as the Alien creature], before reaching their final, adult stage. That's why that Zenith TV/radio/diswasher console you're drooling over may serve as an ideal habitat for a colony of cockroaches, gnats, or centipedes.
Life stages of bugs:
egg
larva
pupa
adult
At any one of those stages, the insect form, depending on the species, may inflict considerable damage on it's host. The Emerald Ash Borer is a good example of that.
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- Insects of all types - Roaches, Carpenter Ants, Silverfish, Millipedes - Mike Porper 09:55:25 03/13/15 (0)
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