RE: [pestlist] IPM database on the iPad?
This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Hi Anne, We're currently looking into purchasing a tablet PC or iPad (not sure yet) for use in several activities that our Preventive Conservation staff undertakes: IPM monitoring, Temp and RH monitoring and, the latest, taking images of objects for documentation. The more reasons we have, the better! Efficiency is on list, as well as the ability to chart trends. The only downside brought up by our IT crew is security. If we use wireless in our museum, they told us that tablets and pads are a higher security risk than a laptop. I'll admit ignorance to this and how it all works. The good news is that we're looking to use it as a high-tech clipboard to store the data then physically link a desktop and the tablet to transfer the data. I setup an Excel sheet with Registration to log our pests about a year ago. This is huge step up from the many years of writing them into 3 binders! Our museum uses KE Emu and we already know, if setup correctly, an Excel sheet can be imported into the system. We have not got a Pest Module in KE started up yet, funds and time are still needed, however just working with a frame work that will gel with our current system has the potential to save lots of time transferring data. Hope this helps! I look forward to hearing how it all goes for you and I'll keep you all posted on how things go on my end. Matt Matthew A. Mickletz Supervisor, Preventive Conservation Winterthur Museum From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Linda Kemp Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 3:44 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] IPM database on the iPad? This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.netmailto:pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Hi Anne, I cannot give you any answers, but I would be really interested to hear how you find this method if you do implement it. It sounds like a great way forward! It would also be helpful for me as I am currently writing a dissertation on implementing IPM in small museums or those with a very low budget and few staff.. this might be a way of making it making it less time consuming? Kind regards Linda Linda Kemp BSc Conservation Student The Cass. School of Design Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture Design London Metropolitan University 41 Commercial Road London E1 1LA e-mail: linda.k...@email59.plus.commailto:linda.k...@email59.plus.com From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Bevan, Anne Sent: 14 March 2013 13:39 To: pestlist@museumpests.Net Subject: [pestlist] IPM database on the iPad? This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.netmailto:pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- We are thinking of using our iPad in our monthly monitoring of our traps. Has anyone done this, and if so, what app or program are you using? We currently use an Access database and are thinking about using File Maker Pro which can be easily managed on the iPad. Thanks in advance! Anne G. Bevan Assistant Registrar -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Netmailto:pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.netmailto:pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.netmailto:imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.commailto:l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.commailto:l...@zaks.com -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Netmailto:pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.netmailto:pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.netmailto:imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.commailto:l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.commailto:l...@zaks.com div id=disclaimer.winterthur.orga
Re: [pestlist] pest id question
This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Insley - The basement from which these items came had an infestation of subterranean termites. Once they were removed from the basement, that was the end of the activity. You're left with damage and lots of soil. Termites wall themselves off in humidity-controlled chambers and tubes by glueing soil grains together. The workers make trips back and forth to the soil to bring soil grains up to their workings. This situation is NOT active and there is no cause for doing any treatment, except of course, cleaning the materials. Tom Parker -Original Message- From: I Julier insleymvmus...@gmail.com To: pestlist pestlist@museumpests.net Sent: Fri, Mar 15, 2013 10:33 am Subject: [pestlist] pest id question This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Hello, I just started work at a very small museum with archival collections. When I arrived, I came across an accession which was previously stored in the basement of a large wooden structure (by the donor), and is/was? clearly infested with some sort of insect. This infestation and the ensuing damage occurred prior to the museum taking custody of the records. I am wondering if someone can tell me from the photos what I am dealing with? What I believe is frass, appears as brown specks, which are adhered to the paper, but there is also granular, sand-like material in the envelopes in which the material is stored. It's difficult to tell if this is all frass or if the material is just really dirty, which is also possible. It is also hard for me to tell what might be frass and what might be eggs. I've found a few specks which appear to have web-like material attached and in the interior fold of one item, spider-web-like material. I've also found what appear to be shells/exoskeletons shed by insects, or possibly merely the remnants of dead insects. Unfortunately, my camera doesn't have a high enough resolution to get a good picture of this. I'm trying to figure out first what I am dealing with so that I can then decide how to treat the materials. I'm an archivist by training and this is my first time dealing with any major pest issue. I stumbled upon a powerpoint of insect frass online and the closest thing I could find was termites, since they excrete dirt as well as whatever else they are munching on. Is it possible that this is termite damage? I'm attaching some photos. Sorry for the poor quality! Thank you for any assistance you can provide! Insley -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
Re: [pestlist] pest id question
This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- The damage appears to be from subterranean termites. Jeffrey Tucker, BCE Entomology Associates, Inc. P.O. Box 70375 Houston, Texas 77270 Phone: 713.681.9004 jtuc...@entoassoc.com Shipping:(FedEX, UPS) 2020 North Loop West Ste. 115 Houston, Texas 77018 On Mar 15, 2013, at 9:00 AM, I Julier insleymvmus...@gmail.com wrote: This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Hello, I just started work at a very small museum with archival collections. When I arrived, I came across an accession which was previously stored in the basement of a large wooden structure (by the donor), and is/was? clearly infested with some sort of insect. This infestation and the ensuing damage occurred prior to the museum taking custody of the records. I am wondering if someone can tell me from the photos what I am dealing with? What I believe is frass, appears as brown specks, which are adhered to the paper, but there is also granular, sand-like material in the envelopes in which the material is stored. It's difficult to tell if this is all frass or if the material is just really dirty, which is also possible. It is also hard for me to tell what might be frass and what might be eggs. I've found a few specks which appear to have web-like material attached and in the interior fold of one item, spider-web-like material. I've also found what appear to be shells/exoskeletons shed by insects, or possibly merely the remnants of dead insects. Unfortunately, my camera doesn't have a high enough resolution to get a good picture of this. I'm trying to figure out first what I am dealing with so that I can then decide how to treat the materials. I'm an archivist by training and this is my first time dealing with any major pest issue. I stumbled upon a powerpoint of insect frass online and the closest thing I could find was termites, since they excrete dirt as well as whatever else they are munching on. Is it possible that this is termite damage? I'm attaching some photos. Sorry for the poor quality! Thank you for any assistance you can provide! Insley -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com photo_1.JPGphoto_2.JPGphoto_3.JPGphoto_5.JPGphoto_7.JPGphoto_8.JPG -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
[pestlist] RE: insect ID help
This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Cory, You are correct that it is in the family: Dermestidae but it appears to be in the genus: Trogoderma and possibly species: sternale. I have found the larvae of this species of beetle eating dead insects in a wall void of a museum. Remember that adult dermestid beetle activity for many species begins in late winter and is over by mid-June. It is common to see quite a few species this time of year. Pat Kelley -Original Message- From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Rogge, Corina E Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 2:18 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] insect ID help This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Hi all, we just found this guy crawling around a sink in our lab. It's overall body length is about 4 mm and seems to morphologically resemble a dermestid but doesn't have the usual markings for maculates, lardarius or ater. Any help in identifying this would be appreciated! regards, Cory Cory Rogge, Ph.D. Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor in Conservation Science Department of Art Conservation Rockwell Hall 230 Buffalo State College 1300 Elmwood Ave Buffalo, NY 14222 USA Phone: (716)878-4646 Fax: (716)878-5039 email: rogg...@buffalostate.edu -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
