RE: [pestlist] FW: pest identification
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. --- I found the following link to a list of dermestids, and this is one found in Turkey. It closely resembles the one in the images from the fur storage at the university. http://www.dermestidae.com/Dermesteskaszabi.html Paul Paul S. Storch Project Specialist II/Collections Liaison Historic Sites and Museums B-124.2 Minnesota Historical Society 345 Kellogg Blvd. West St. Paul, MN 55102-1906 (651) 259-3257 Fax: (651) 297-2967 paul.sto...@mnhs.org Visit Historic Sites!http://www.mnhs.org/visit/ www.mnhs.org From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Leon Zak Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 10:08 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] FW: pest identification 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 - we received the email below - the images were in the rar compressed format. Rar is not native to many computers so I've put his images on a page on the museumpests web site. If you'd like to help him out please go to http://museumpests.net/temppests and view the images. As I usually do, I also suggested that he join our list. Until he does that, which you won't know unless he sends something to us, please send your answers to the list (just so others can follow) and to him, nyilma...@nku.edu.tr leon ... P.S. - I think we had this pest come through a couple weeks ago - must be the season ? From: Nadim YILMAZER [mailto:nyilma...@nku.edu.tr] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 7:39 AM To: i...@museumpests.net Subject: pest identification Dear Sir/Madam, Please attached to find a zipped folder including pictures of some insects we encountered in fur store of our small zoology museum. I wonder if you have chance to identify those insects? (I think they are two adults, two larvae and one pupa. One adult may be a black carpet beetle.) (By the way, I am a cell biologist, not an entomologist). Thank you for your help in advance. Best regards. Dr. Nadim Yılmazer Namık Kemal University Biology Department Tekirdag - Turkey -- 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] invasion of bugs at house museum
I'm responsible for overseeing the IPM vendor contract and in-house program at our state-wide network of historic sites. We also have historic houses and buildings that are subjected to the same types of pest loads that you describe. I agree with the previous responses about structural exclusion and trapping. Those are two very essential components of any effective IPM plan. It sounds like you have the continuous monitoring in place with the pest log. The suggestions will work over time. Two questions that you didn't address: do you have a strict cleaning (you did mention vacuuming the bugs regularly, and you'll still have to do that) and food policy inside the house? That's important to reduce food sources for insects that might be attracted to food residues, and for rodents. Secondly, I've inferred from your description of the problem that there might be vegetation growing close to the house. I looked at the image of the front of the house on your website, and the landscaping appears to be correct for the period on the street side. It looks like there might be plants close to the walls around the back. We had severe box elder invasions in one of our historic homes until we removed the box elders growing close to the house. The PCO should have made some comments about vegetation, if it's indeed a factor. Paul S. Storch Project Specialist II/Collections Liaison Historic Sites and Museums B-124.2 Minnesota Historical Society 345 Kellogg Blvd. West St. Paul, MN 55116 (651) 259-3257 paul.sto...@mnhs.org Visit Historic Sites!http://www.mnhs.org/visit/ www.mnhs.org From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of bugma...@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:47 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] invasion of bugs at house museum The insect invasion you describe happens every fall when insects seek out shelter for the winter. Your idea of a black light in the attic is a good one. Get a supply of glueboards from Atlantic Paste Glue Company of Brooklyn, NY. Any firm which supplies the pest control industry will have them in stock. Surround the black light with glueboards and put the thing on a timer so it will come on at about 4PM and go off at night. Flies usually rest at night. Other than sealing your building as tightly as you can, there's not much you can do about the Autumn invaders. A thorough glueboard program throughout the facility is a must in addition to the attic situation. Thomas A. Parker, PhD Pest Control Services, Inc. www.museumpestcontrol.comhttp://www.museumpestcontrol.com -Original Message- From: Hayley Chambers hay...@theadamsdeadwood.org To: pestlist@museumpests.net Sent: Tue, Oct 5, 2010 5:52 pm Subject: [pestlist] invasion of bugs at house museum Hello folks, I am the new Curator of a house museum in South Dakota that has been overrun with insects, primarily cluster/wood flies, hornets, box elder bugs, and pine leaf beetles (stink bugs). We are experiencing warm autumn weather here and the seasonal pests have been thriving in the attic and throughout the warmer parts of the house. This is a giant concern asthetically (try giving a tour of the house without seeing or hearing the bugs fly around!), health-wise (no one has been stung by a hornet...yet), and of course for the artifacts (flies are getting mashed into floors, leaving debris, and may be a food source for larder beetles). We don't have an IPM in place, unfortunately it did not receive board approval. Hopefully, with renewed energy on my part, we can get something in place. From my understanding, the flies in the house have been an on-going issue since it was converted into a museum ten years ago. Unfortunately, most of what I know about the pest problem is institutional mythology and very little has been recorded. What I do know is that until recently treatment has been superficial- mostly vacuuming when necessary and semi-annual pesticide sprays. The house was sprayed in the spring and the fall until 2008 because of budget cuts. Now the house receives a treatment (spraying around the foundation and inside around base boards and windows) in the fall, though it was not done last year because of early snow fall. Spraying period is something I would like to eliminate. Unfortunately, we simply can't afford expensive fly catchers. Earlier this year, our facilities manager fabricated our own version of a fly catcher for our attic- a blue light mounted on wood with removable sticky fly strips. While these do appear to be attracting flies, we don't have an adequate way to collect them so they form piles of dead flies, which is just plain gross. I created a Pest Management Log to start keeping track of what kinds of insects we are finding, how many, where, and when. I have also met with our pest elimination specialist, who has sprayed at the house and our sister museum for years. We
RE: [pestlist] [psetlist] recommendations
Barbara's suggestions are right on point. I would also suggest looking at a copy of the book Caring for American Indian Objects. It addresses these issues and methods in detail for just this type of collection. Here is the link to more information on the publication: http://shop.mnhs.org/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=521 Paul S. Storch Project Specialist II/Collections Liaison Historic Sites and Museums B-124.2 Minnesota Historical Society 345 Kellogg Blvd. West St. Paul, MN 55116 (651) 259-3257 paul.sto...@mnhs.org www.mnhs.org From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Appelbaum Himmelstein Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 11:37 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] [psetlist] recommendations I don't know if you got any other resposes (the pest control list is not the best place to look for conservators) so I'll jump in. Cleaning methods appropriate for the kinds of things you mentioned can vary widely depending on condition and many other issues. For example, are these things being cleaned for exhibition, for longterm preservation, or to help prevent further insect attack? Are any of the dirt layers from original use that might mean that they shouldn't be cleaned off? Ordinarily brushing is not a good idea for textiles and beaded things. Ethnographic wool textiles and sillk textiles, for example, may be too fragile to be brushed. In any case, a more common superficial cleaning technique is vacuuming through screening. Brushing through screening makes no sense. I would suggest a consultation with a conservator, who should be able to examine the collections, recommend cleaning methods, and teach your staff how to carry them out. I don't think you need a textile conservator specifically - well-trrained objects conservators should be able to do this. It is also important to figure out if any of the insect activity is active. There is some literature on this topic, but a lot of it is for conservators; some is about cleaning routines for house museums, which won't help you. Barbara Appelbaum Hello, I would like to know if anyone can recommend brushes and screens for cleaning textiles (wool, leather, beaded leather) and baskets. There's evidence of insects on the objects, as well as years of dust/dirt. Thank you! Sincerely, Darsita Senior Curator-CAP Collections Huhugam Heritage Center 4759 N. Maricopa Rd. Chandler, AZ. 85226 520-796-3500 ext. 237 This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual(s)named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received the e-mail by mistake and permanently delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. -- Appelbaum Himmelstein 444 Central Park West New York, NY 10025 Conservation of Works of Art 212-666-4630 aa...@mindspring.com www.AandHconservation.org
RE: [pestlist] Varied Carpet Beetle Infestation
This is a message from the Pest Management Database 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. --- Is your PCO using rodent traps baited with poisoned grain bait inside the building? If so, those may be the source of the recurring infestation. Paul Storch Historic Sites Collections Liaison St. Paul, MN -Original Message- From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Lauren Miller Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:46 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] Varied Carpet Beetle Infestation This is a message from the Pest Management Database 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. --- My museum has been battling an ongoing varied carpet beetle infestation for one year now. After failed attempts at controlling the infestation through housekeeping, removal of drapes and textiles, placement of pheromone lures, and increased exterior spraying, we will be chemically treating the entire interior of the building, which is our last resort. While I am confident this will eliminate the current infestation, the staff and I are concerned about future problems with varied carpet beetles as we cannot continue to allocate the financial resources necessary to treat the building again. Can anyone offer some suggestions on non-chemical preventative measures to prevent future infestation? Thank you, Lauren Miller Curator of Exhibits and Collections, Old Capitol Museum - To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestl...@museumpests.com 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 send an email to the list, send your msg to pestl...@museumpests.com 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
