A true case in our apartment house: There was a significant fire downstairs of the apartment in local pizzeria/kebab house. The fire was taken over quite soon by local fire department. As a result of the fire, the damages were analyzed from fire itself, the dust and water used to take over the fire.
Our apartment is located in upper level, but still the smell of smoke easily covered the whole stairs and reached the flat for living. As a result – all the bottom floor rooms were inspected specifically for possible damages. Our flat´s stock room is located in the floor were the fire was heaviest. All the lockrooms were studied for possible damages. They found a lot of worms from our textile pouches in our stock , and some example pieces of worms were taken. We took immediately microscopic images with i4scope The images were send to the city specialist in insects. He came back with analysis:
“This worm is born from a Beetle , Reesa Vespulae. It is not harmful in standard conditions, even though the name in some languages means different. This worm is extremely harmful especially in museums and locations, where dried insect are collected. In case you don’t owe any butterfly collection or similar, there should be no danger. No additional prevention is needed.”
Summarize: The analysis came instantly from the specialist and from the picture taken by i4scope mobile microscope together with our mobile phone. The connection to fire is still unclear and under investigation, but we are satisfied from the prompt analysis from the circumstances of possible worm attack in our stock against textiles ☺
