Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/21

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Film-eating insects?
From: "Oliver Bryk" <oliverbryk@home.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:19:25 -0700

Browsing through a 1969 edition of "The Leica & Leicaflex Way" by Andrew
Matheson (Focal Press) I read (on page 299):
"Use adequate precautions when processing film in hot climates and keep even
developed films well protected against insects and other creatures.
Film-eating insects, incidentally, are not confined to the tropics; they are
just as abundant in the short summer in certain Arctic countries such as
Alaska and Greenland."
Is there an entomologist in the house? What insects eat film?
Oliver Bryk

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