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Ozge - Without even finishing my reading of your email, I knew this had to be Los Angeles. I’ve dealt with other situations where Drywood termites are in the major beams of a large commercial warehouse buildings in the LA area. Seems a lot of the warehouses have a similar condition. You are welcomed to call me at 610- 348-9890, my cell phone, to discuss the situation. Tom Parker 610-348-9890 Cellar Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 7, 2017, at 2:20 PM, Ozge Gencay-Ustun <ogencay-us...@theautry.org> > wrote: > > This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. > To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net > To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Dear All, > > I have an inquiry about termites, too. We have drywood termites infested in > the wooden beams (vertical beams and roof elements) of our new building, > where we have moved our library and where our conservation lab and > collections areas are (so from time to time we will have objects in those > areas). Our other museum collections (mainly ethnographic) are in other part > of the building where there is no wooden structure there, so I might say they > are fairly safe, right now. > > In addition, one of our conservators suspects that we may also have > subterranean termites. We had a company came in and did a treatment (I am not > sure what). It is an old building, we had renovations done and just moved in. > We have a small Native garden next to the building, but I didn’t see any > subterranean termite tunnels there. I only saw the drywood termites > (red-bodied swarmers with wings of branchy veins). I found all of them dead > on the floor of the library’s cool storage room and one of them was alive > caught in an insect trap. > > To eliminate the drywood termites what would is recommended? Would using a > bait matrix containing an insect growth regulator, hexaflumuron work on > drywood termites like it did for subterranean termites with the Statue of > Liberty (1998 JAIC (37:3) article by Nan-Yao Su, Jamey D. Thomas, and Rudolf > H. Scheffrahn)? Do you think it would work better than injecting those wooden > beams? Any thoughts would help. > > Thanks, > Özge Gençay-Üstün > Assistant Conservator > > AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST > 4700 Western Heritage Way > Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462 > Direct: 323.495.4328 > E-mail: ogencay-us...@theautry.org > > Go West: TheAutry.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to > imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: > "unsubscribe pestlist" > Any problems email l...@zaks.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" OR just send an email to l...@zaks.com and ask to be removed. Any problems email l...@zaks.com
