Duck Mount / Bugs Ate It!?

[brunner]

Not sure what to think here.

This mount is 8-9 years old and just happen to walk by the book shelf it was on and saw this.

Do I need to be worried about my shoulder mounts?

I’ve spent a lot of money on taxidermy [emoji15]






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[Walker]

Yes be worried. First guess would be dermisted beetles.

[brunner]

What do I need to do?


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[Walker]

I'd close up the room as tight as possible and set of a couple of bug bombs in there. Do it again in a week and repeat one more time in 2 weeks to get anything that hatches.

[Big pig]

Did you have euros done with Beetles?

BP

[mattfox]

Yes they will spread to other mounts if you don’t kill them. Big bombs and aerosol bug poison (like raid)

[Man]

Same thing happened to me. I closed the door and set off a Raid bug bomb. Seemed to take care of the issue

[brunner]

Currently pulling each mount and inspecting each one


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[brunner]

Exterminator coming Monday


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[Hills of Texas]

The duck is toast. Looks pretty greasy. I’m betting bugs had a feast under there. Check and clean your other mounts. Then bug bomb everything

[Greenheadless]

Take you mounts and put them in large plastic bags. Put in pest strips in the plastic bags with the mounts and leave for a month. Replace the pest strips over a period of a couple months while mounts are in the plastic bags.

Thoroughly clean EVERYTHING, paying special attention to carpet in the rooms you have noticed issues.

[Sippy]

Get that sucker out of the house. Likely wasnt preserved the best.

[Shane]

Get some Cy-Kick CS pesticide and spray all your mounts with it. It'll keep them bug-free. This was recommended to me by Jerry Huffaker a few years ago after I saw a beetle on my sheep mount. I immediately got some and treated all my mounts. I've not seen any beetles since.

Mix it with water in a pump sprayer, per the instructions on the bottle. It doesn't cause any kind of staining at all.

[buck_wild]

Birds are notorious for having bug damage. They go through a different preservation process than the animals (or at least let's hope your animals are tanned and not dry persevered). There's a good chance the mounts are safer.

Sounds like you have something lined out but here is a "taxidermy specific" product but maybe that's just marketing. https://www.mountmedix.com/

[kruppa24]

dang that sux, hope you save the others