RE: [pestlist] New type of Booklice in OUMNH

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Bethany,

Thank you so much for sharing this.

Best regards,

Pat


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Subject: [pestlist] New type of Booklice in OUMNH

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Dear all,

In April 2017 we recorded a new booklice not seen previously in our museum. 
Darren Mann identified as Lepinotus reticulatus and I have included a picture 
of the species which is identifiable by its thick hairs and stumpy wings.

Curious to know if any other UK museums seen this pest before?

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All the best,

Bethany Palumbo

Conservator, Life Collections
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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From: Darren Mann
Sent: 15 May 2017 12:26
To: Bethany Palumbo
Subject: Booklouse

Hi,

The short-winged one is Lepinotus reticulatus - it's a domestic species and 
potentially a pest. New to our list I believe.

Image attached.

Cheers
D

Darren J. Mann
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RE: [pestlist] Identifying insect

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Hi Karen,

Your beetle appears to be a type of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It 
has a common name of elm-leaf beetle and a scientific name of Xanthogaleruca 
luteola. It is coming into the lab from outdoors.

Regards,

Pat

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Hi there




Is anyone familiar with this insect? It was found crawling on desk on the 4th 
floor in the conservation lab. It's not one of the usual critters that wanders 
through now and then.



Thanks very much

Karen Holloway | Preservation Officer | Preservation Services
National Library of Australia, Parkes Place ACT
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[pestlist] RE: ID freezer question

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Annie,

The images are;

Odd - Odd beetle adult male
Odd 1 - Odd beetle adult female
Odd 2 - Odd beetle young larva
Jonesh 3 - Appears to be a rove beetle. These feed on detritus and other things 
depending on the species.

Pat Kelley


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Subject: [pestlist] ID  freezer question

Hello pest list,

I have attached four images: three of which I believe are different phases of 
the odd beetle, but am looking for some confirmation of that. I had thought 
that all the larvae I was finding were carpet beetle larvae, but now am 
rethinking that as I find what I think are odd beetle adults. But it seems as 
though they both raise similar concerns in relation to library collections.

I don't have a clue of what the thing pictured in the image titled jonesh3 is, 
can anyone ID it?

I'm also putting a query out there about a freezer. I'd like to get a freezer 
for our institution that will be used for incoming gifts and possibly as a 
mechanism for treating a large collection in the process of moving it to a new 
space. I've found a mini walk-in room that's in our budget, but it 
automatically defrosts, raising the air temperature to about -15C every 6 
hours. The company has told me that items stored in it only warm up about 2 or 
3 degrees during the defrost (from -20C) but this still makes me concerned 
about its pest killing abilities. Am I right to be concerned about that, or 
will it be effective in treating collections materials for pests?

Thanks,

Annie Peterson

Annie Peterson
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Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University
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RE: [pestlist] Pest ID question

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Emily,

It is a winged psocid. Some insect species in the order Psocotera lose their 
wings as adults, others do not.

Pat Kelley


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Subject: [pestlist] Pest ID question

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Hi All,
I was hoping someone might be able to help in identifying the insect in the 
attached images.  There were two of these (both in unfortunately awkward 
positions) caught on a blunder trap in a corner next to a pipe passing up 
through the floor and along the wall.  This space has high humidity, with known 
populations of silverfish and psocids. Any information would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Emily Schuetz Stryker
WUDPAC Class of 2013

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RE: [pestlist] Plasma Field Treatment

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Hi Cricket,

I will chime in on this since no one else has yet. I assume the lack of 
response is due in part to the fact that this form of treatment is relatively 
unconventional and not many people out there know much about it. 

I will be the first to dispel the myth that freezing does not kill the eggs. 
The research has been done on this and although different pests require 
different temperatures, freezing certainly will kill all stages of life if done 
quickly enough, cold enough and for a long enough time. All of that data is 
available on museumpests.net

I will let conservators offer advice on the possible harm from a plasma field. 
I understand that they are household materials, but it would still be good to 
know if any research has been done with this technique. You are exposing the 
materials to quite a few different scenarios between a heated argon gas and a 
dielectric field.

Pat Kelley 

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Hello All,

Does anyone have any knowledge of or advice about using a plasma field to treat 
against a webbing clothes moth infestation?  I'm dealing with a household 
infestation and am looking to treat furniture, clothing and rugs, but no 
artwork.  A company I've contacted said the best treatment method is using 
plasma field, and described the process as first freezing the materials, and 
then introducing a dielectric field with argon gas.  They said freezing kills 
the adults while the plasma field kills the eggs and sanitizes.  They say this 
method is better than traditional freezing, which doesn't guarantee killing the 
eggs.  I am an art conservator, and was trained to freeze objects for such an 
infestation using a standard procedure.  I'm just really curious about this 
treatment and was hoping someone had some thoughts about its use, efficacy and 
possible harm to the treated materials.  

Thank you very much in advance.
Cricket



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[pestlist] RE: insect ID help

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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



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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



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Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor in Conservation Science

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Buffalo State College

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[pestlist] RE: Psocids

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Amy,

You are certainly not alone in the fact that you have psocids in your 
collections. Nearly every collections storage area that I have visited in the 
US has had some presence of psocids. Generally, the museums that say they do 
not have them are either not monitoring or they are overlooking the tiny specks 
on the edge of their sticky traps and assume that anything that small must be 
dust.

Even though an institution may have psocids, this does not mean that there is a 
major concern. Documented damage occurs when the numbers are extremely large 
(100's to 1,000's) in isolated areas. Capturing a couple on a sticky trap every 
few weeks means that you should stay alert and continue monitoring, but is not 
a cause to be overly concerned.

As both Tom and Gretchen stated, small increases in temperature or decreases in 
RH will cause these soft-bodied, moisture loving insects to dry up and die. 
Here is the link to the psocid fact sheet on museumpests.net:  
http://www.museumpests.net/pdfholder/27image.pdf   It offers good information.

Good luck,

Pat Kelley


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Amy (FDA)
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Subject: [pestlist] Psocids

Hello,

I am curious what others are using in their collections for general pest 
control and if anyone has had psocids visiting their collections.  I've just 
discovered psocids in an insect and herbarium cabinet and am interested in 
finding out if anyone else has had this issue and how it was corrected.

Thank you,
Amy K. Miller


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[pestlist] RE: Indentification?

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It is a late instar german cockroach, Blatella germanica nymph


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Hi all,

Can anyone identify this bug? Sorry he's a bit squished at the back end...

Thanks!
WAJR

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The Society of the Cincinnati

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RE: [pestlist] killing bugs and leaving a beautiful corpse

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Barbara,

The kill jars that entomologists use before pinning an insect in a collection 
use a small volume of acetone to quickly kill them. The easiest source for 
cheap acetone is fingernail polish remover, which works fine. Pour a bit over a 
paper towel  (don't soak) in the bottom of a container and you are ready to go. 
Freezing can also work.

Pat

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I am trying to get an intact dead body of a particular type of insect to 
photograph so I can have it identified, but it takes a long time for them to 
die by starvation after I put them in a jar.  I noticed that a squirt of Windex 
incapacitates them temporarily but does not kill them, so I dropped a small bit 
of cotton wet with full-strength ammonium hydroxide into the jar with a 
recently caught one, and it died quite quickly.  I am not, however, looking 
forward to opening the jar.

Is there some other common but deadly substance (other than RAID) that would 
make a quick kill?

Based on my Windex experience, I suggest it when you are trying to catch 
insects without squashing them.  It may work on flying ones as well as crawling 
ones.

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RE: [pestlist] help with identification

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The adult appears to be a Little brown beetle, Dienerella pilifera. Here is a 
fact sheet from museumpests.net on the Latridiidae, Minute Brown Scavenger 
Beetles: http://www.museumpests.net/pdfholder/54image.pdf

It should answer your questions.

Pat


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Thank you everyone for the responses.  I peeled back the plastic that I had 
over the sticky trap in order to get some better pictures and possibly found an 
adult.  To my uneducated eye, the adult looks like Cleridae in shape but not 
coloration.  If it is a Cleridae of some sort, how alarmed should I be?

Thank you again,

Angela Duckwall
Associate Conservator
The Textile Museum * 2320 S Street, NW * Washington, DC 20008 *
tel 202.667.0441, ext. 43 * fax 202.483.0994 *
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It's a beetle larva, and doesn't appear to be a dermestid, but I'd hesitate to 
go beyond that.
A couple of possibilities are Cryptophagidae or a young Cleridae, but I think 
you'd need to show a specimen to a coleopterist to be sure.
Tony

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Shirehall, Market Avenue, Norwich NR1 3JQ, England.
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Can anyone identify this little guy?   Several were found on a sticky trap and 
they are approximately 2 mm long.

Thanks,

Angela Duckwall
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[pestlist] RE: Anobium traps/lures

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Daniel,



The company Agrisense in the UK had a lure that was effective for Anobium 
punctatum back in the 1990's. The picture on the Australian website appears to 
be an Agrisense trap. Sometime in the early 2000's the lab doing this synthesis 
work for Agrisense discontinued synthesizing this pheromone and thus Agrisense 
discontinued selling the lures. I have not heard that they overcame this 
problem.



Insects Limited has attempted to synthesize this compound unsuccessfully. It is 
an extremely difficult pheromone to synthesize and my guess is that is the 
reason that the Agrisense lab quit making it in the first place.



I would be interested to see if the company in the Australian website can 
actually supply this product. If so, I would like to hear how it is working for 
anyone using it. If there is a pheromone that has sound chemistry that has been 
field tested product being offered here, Insects Limited would be more than 
happy to carry it for the US market. I tend to be a little skeptical after more 
than a decade with only a few products being offered that have basically no 
attraction to Anobium.



In the mean time, Dr. Uwe Nolt of the Johann Heinrich von Thunen- Institute 
(vTI)in Germany has done lots of great work with Anobium by monitoring with 
light traps and paper coverings on focused areas of wooden structures and 
wooden collections.



Pat


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Hi all,



I am looking for a US based supplier of Anobium traps + Anobium punctatum 
standard pheromone lures. I've obviously already looked at, and contacted, the 
obvious places (i.e., those suppliers listed on museumpest.net), but they 
couldn't help me.



I've seen these in Australia (and the UK, and Germany) referred to as The 
Anobid Trap: cf. http://www.entosol.com.au/prodpc_b.htm



Anyone have any ideas for US suppliers?



Cheers,



Dan



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[pestlist] RE: Rodents and Door Seals

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Abby,

I have had great success with brushes on the bottom of doors in several 
different museums. It does keep out mice and insects if installed correctly. A 
quality synthetic brush will adapt to temperature changes or small changes to 
the floor structure better than a rubber seal. The rubber tends to get ripped 
or worn easier as well.

As long as you use a synthetic brush and do not have lots of food and organic 
material going into the bristles, you should not have a problem with insects. 
The brushes can be removed and cleaned if need be.

Pat

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From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Abigail 
K Stevens
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 10:26 AM
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Subject: [pestlist] Rodents and Door Seals

Dear all,

I was wondering if anyone has a preference when it comes to the type of seals 
used to prevent rodents squeezing underneath doors? We're planning to have some 
fitted to a few internal and external doors, and the pest company we have asked 
to do the job have suggested brushes for the bottom of the doors. I would 
prefer rubber, as I'm concerned about insects taking up residence in the 
brushes, and I don't know how successful brushes will be in stopping mice. 
However the company assure me that mice will not go through brushes as they 
don't like the feeling. I'm not particularly convinced, so thought I would ask 
around. Does anyone have any experience in this area?

Thanks in advance,
Abby

Abby Stevens | Preventive Conservator | The Manchester Museum  The Whitworth 
Art Gallery
t: 0161 306 1590 |t: 07825 011 011 | abigail.k.stev...@manchester.ac.uk
Monday, Tuesday  Friday at The Manchester Museum
Wednesday  Thursday at The Whitworth Art Gallery
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RE: [pestlist] photo needed

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Dear List,

The museumpests.net site is happy to post examples of damage in its Image 
Library within the Identification section. There are a few examples already on 
the site. If you have examples of damage that you would be willing to share and 
have documented what pest(s) have done the damage, there are 2 means to post it 
to the sight:


  1.  Go to the About Us tab and fill out the image submission form with your 
image: http://www.museumpests.net/aboutus.asp?defaultpanel=6
  2.  Send and email with your image, the pest responsible and the photo credit 
information for the image to 
p.kel...@insectslimited.commailto:p.kel...@insectslimited.com

 Please consider sharing your examples of pests and pest damage with the museum 
pest community as a whole! The site was created with this type of support in 
mind.

Thanks,

Pat Kelley
IPM Working Group - ID Aids Subgroup Chair


From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Ellen 
Pearlstein
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 9:33 PM
To: pestlist@museumpests.net
Subject: RE: [pestlist] photo needed

Hi Claire!

Boy do I get this question!

I am not sure whether you have seen the ppt prepared by the Carrlees about 
Alaskan baskets, but I thought, pending their permission, the attached image 
might be helpful. Further, the insect diagrams available through the 
Museumpests.net website might be helpful just to identify the insects, but not 
the damage.

Best to you!

Ellen

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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:52:09 -0800
Subject: Re: [pestlist] photo needed
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Bronwyn:

Many thanks for the offer, but I really need to use an image of something that 
is culturally familiar to the folks these signs are aimed at - that is Pacific 
Northwest Native Americans.

One of my biggest challenges when working with Native communities, and 
especially those for whom the whole museum world is a new experience, is making 
museum and collections rules relevant to their day-to-day cultural environment. 
 A photo of a Northwest coast object being chewed by bugs underlined with a few 
carefully chosen words will have far more impact than the typical DO NOT EAT 
AND DRINK IN THE MUSEUM or NO FOOD AND DRINK signs have.

Thanks again - if I ever need to make signs for an African collection I will 
let you know,

Claire



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Claire,  I have an image of an African fertility figure (wood) with some 
good? insect damage that happened before it came to our museum.  Please 
contact me at be...@museum.state.il.usmailto:be...@museum.state.il.us if you 
are interested.

Bronwyn Eves
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Dear All:

I am in the process of making new bug awareness signs for a client to use in a 
tribal museum here in the Pacific Northwest.  I have found that very 
official/authoritarian signage does not go down well here (not that it does 
anywhere) and that visual hints have far more impact than words.

My new signage has been inspired by a format I saw in use at the Pitt Rivers 
Museum last year which I thought was particularly good (please see bad mobile 
phone captured photograph below).

I am in need of a photograph of insect damage to an object or material that I 
can use in my version, in particular something recognizable to folks in the 
Pacific Northwest.  Maybe some basketry?  I do not have such an image and I'm 
hoping that you folks might be able to help out.  I will need a photo that I 
can reproduce and display in public and non-public areas (photo credit will of 
course be included).

Any help would be most gratefully accepted.

Thanks,

Claire


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Portland, Oregon 97213
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Re: [pestlist] LinkedIn discussion

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Tom and Gretchen make some good points.
When searching for specific infestations, pheromones are one of the best tools 
out there to focus our attention of where to inspect in large storage areas. It 
always comes down to a visual search, but pheromones can narrow the search to a 
much, much smaller area.
Sex pheromones are only going to attract the male of the species, not a female 
with eggs or a reproductive pair. If breeding is going on in your storage or 
exhibit space, it was already there before the pheromones were introduced.
Many of the topics at the recent 2011 A Pest Odyssey meeting in London showed 
how pheromones were used in museum settings to monitor and locate infestations 
of webbing clothes moth. The publication of these  topics just came out in 
December of 2011. http://www.pestodyssey.org/publication.php
If you are worried about drawing in native populations living around the 
museum, you should keep the traps 15 meters away from any door that gets left 
opened on a regular basis. (Although I will say that if you are in this 
situation, you would probably be better off spending your time and resources to 
find a way to exclude outdoor pests with better door sweeps, lighting, screens 
and other exclusion methods. Another good way is to keep the door closed!)
If webbing clothes moth is the insect giving you the most problems, recent 
research has shown that you don't have to worry about drawing them in for 
outdoors if your museum is in a rural setting. Authors; Rudy Plarre and Bianca 
Krüger-Carstensen in their paper titled: “Outdoor trapping and genetical 
characterization of populations of webbing clothes moth Tineola bisselliella 
(Lepidoptera: Tineidae) in the broader area of Berlin” published in  J. Ent. 
Acaral. Res. Ser. II,43(2):129-135, Sept. 2011 showed that outdoor trapping in 
rural areas did not catch any moths, while numbers outdoors in the city were 
relatively high. These moths are clearly following people!
Research and testing of multiple pheromones being used in single traps has been 
going on for many years and it continues. It often depends on the species you 
are trying to attract as to how well it will work. If you are just starting a 
monitoring program from scratch, I always recommend to first monitor with 
sticky blunder traps, then identify what you find and finally locate the 
source with pheromones only if there is a reliable sex pheromone available for 
that specific insect.

Pat Kelley
Vice President
Insects Limited, Inc.


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Group -

Dave Mueller of Insects Limited can attest to the expensive difficulty of 
isolating specific insect pheromones for particular species.  Unfortunately 
most insect species have one or more pheromones (let's say sex pheromones) 
specific to that particular species.  There's no such thing as a general 
pheromone, which can be synthesized for a range of species.  There might be a 
common bait attractant for, let's say, the more common cockroaches.  Or some 
kind of food attractant for the dermestids.  Perhaps that might be an avenue to 
research.

By the way, it is not true pheromone traps will entice insects into a museum.  
Pheromone trap lures do not have extensive reach, i.e. they only cover a 
fairly small square footage of area.  So unless you put a webbing clothes moth 
pheromone trap just inside your dock door and you have a pigeon infestation on 
the roof nearby, such a pheromone trap would not draw WCM's into your 
building.

Tom Parker


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Colin,

Unfortunately, I do not have access to my linkedin account

RE: [pestlist] Digets Mode

[Pat Kelley]

Daily is my vote.

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RE: [pestlist] Insect screening

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Dear Sharon,

The 25 micron screen size is a bit of overkill. Here in the US, we
generally recommend a 16 Mesh screen size for insects, which translates
into 1.0 mm openings, or 1000 micron. You can find the different screen
sizes broken down at this website:
http://www.azom.com/details.asp?ArticleID=1417 

I hope that this helps,

Pat Kelley

Patrick J. Kelley
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16950 Westfield Park Road
Westfield, IN 46074 USA
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Dear colleagues,

I am trying to source insect pest screening - what sort of
gauge/material is recommended? The stuff that is marketed as 'fly
screen' seems to have quite large openings. The finest mesh I've sourced
is 25 micron - is this overkill?

Many thanks in anticipation.

Sharon Connell 


Sharon Connell
Conservation Officer
Brotherton Library
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
T: 44 (0)113 343 6375
E: s.a.conn...@leeds.ac.uk


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