Styrofoam bugs?

[waynefi]

One of the light fixtures in the ceiling of my TT has filled with styrofoam powder. When I take down the fixture, the insulation above it is powdered. It's as if something is living up there and chewing on the insulation. The other fixtures are OK.

Has anyone else seen something like this? What Can I do about it?

[bpounds]

You say it is fine dust. My guess is vibration is abrading where surfaces are in contact.

[GrandpaKip]

wanderingbob wrote:
Polyester-mites !

Must be what happened to all those lime green suits of the seventies.

[wanderingbob]

Polyester-mites !

[GrandpaKip]

I periodically will clean the ceiling lights of stuff that falls in there. No evidence of creatures. I have styrofoam in the roof.
I have had carpenter ants make homes in the foam sheathing on my house.
When I built houses, we would leave all manner of detritus in the walls, messages, too. No one would know until the wall was taken apart, maybe never.

[2oldman]

donn0128 wrote:
Chipmunks in the ceiling cost some friends of ours 2 thousand dollars a couple years ago. So yea, it happens.

Was there styrofoam in the ceiling?

[NRALIFR]

Shoot, my TC is 18 years old and I still get sawdust and styrofoam beads falling out of the ceiling into the light fixtures. Some more than others, a few not at all.

They don’t clean up the areas you can’t see at all before delivery to the dealers.

:):)

[donn0128]

2oldman wrote:
Doesn't seem likely critters would inhabit the ceiling. Not much food up there.

Chipmunks in the ceiling cost some friends of ours 2 thousand dollars a couple years ago. So yea, it happens.

[waynefi]

Part of the mystery is that the area aroud the light is clean. Rodents normally leave a mess.

We haven't seen signs of mice or chipmunks in the trailer, but they are certainly where it is parked.

The powder is quite fine, smaller than styrofoam beads. It is only the styrofoam within about an inch of the opening thatis powdered.

[2oldman]

Doesn't seem likely critters would inhabit the ceiling. Not much food up there.

[westend]

Also, white Styrofoam is made from beads of foam. If it is stressed and moved, beads can break loose and resemble "powder".

[Merrykalia]

Mice, squirrel, chipmunks or even ants will cause that.

[sgfrye]

my first guess would be mickey mouse

[donn0128]

Mice or squirles will do that.