RE: [pestlist] Identify?
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. --- Sharlane Looks like what people in Europe call a ‘shield bug’ or in the US is a ‘stink bug’ possibly the brown marmorated stink bug Image online here: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/general/2010/101020FosterStinkBug.html Crop pest and found indoors in the fall but not a museum pest I am not an entomologist and not based in the USA so you need confirmation from someone local to be sure Nigel Mr Nigel T. Monaghan, Keeper, Natural History Division, National Museum of Ireland, Merrion Street, Dublin 2, IRELAND +353-1-6486354 (phone) +353-1-6486380 (fax) nmonag...@museum.iemailto:nmonag...@museum.ie www.museum.ieblocked::outbind://24/www.museum.ie Group Bookings should be addressed to booki...@museum.iemailto:booki...@museum.ie Research visitors must make appointments in advance of any proposed visit. Visit: See our profile and download the App at www.dublinculturetrail.iehttp://www.dublinculturetrail.ie/Venue.aspx?id=120bc173-a5de-4b8d-ab1d-7568d9a34b11 Watch: We are one of the Dublin stories on www.storymap.iehttp://www.storymap.ie/ also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunX2u_mQWw Read: Guide to the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, €5.95 from Museum Shops Follow: Spoticus, our Rothschild's giraffe who speaks his own mind on Twitter http://twitter.com/SpotticusNH Poetry 1: Dead Zoo – the poem that won a prize at http://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/ted-mcnulty-prize.html Poetry 2: Dead Zoo – a whole book of poetry http://www.gallerypress.com/shop/#!/~/product/id=28033815 Member: Merrion Square Network www.merrionsquare.iehttp://www.merrionsquare.ie/ Tour: Behind the scenes with Keeper of the Dead http://www.alonzeproductions.com/other-projects.html Winners: Best Access and Outreach Initiative - Museum of the Year Awards 2004 Winners: UCD President's Grants for Teaching 2004 and 2005 From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Sharlane Gubkin Sent: 10 July 2014 14:29 To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] Identify? 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. --- Several of these were in boxes of donated papers, all are dead. Thanks for your help! Best, Sharlane -- Sharlane Gubkin Preservation Officer Kelvin Smith Library Case Western Reserve University 11055 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106-7151 (216) 368-3465 -- 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 F�gra T�bhachtach T� an t-eolas sa r�omhphost seo agus in aon chomhad a ghabhann leis r�nda agus d'fh�adfadh s� a bheith faoi phribhl�id dl�th�il freisin. S�anann Ard Mh�saem na h�ireann ach go h�irithe (ach n� tr� theorann�) chuile fhreagracht, agus n� ghlacann le haon dliteanas i leith aon r�omhphost n� iat�in a ghabhann leo, at� cl�mhillteach, taircisni�il, cin�och n� a sh�ra�onn cearta an duine in aon tsl� eile, s�r� r�ndachta, pr�obh�ideachais n� cearta eile san �ireamh. M� t� an r�omhphost seo faighte agat tr� dhearmad, cuir ar an eolas muid l�ithreach ag ithelpd...@museum.ie agus scrios amach � f�in agus chuile ch�ip de as do ch�ras. Deimhn�onn an fon�ta seo chomh maith gur seice�ileadh an teachtaireacht r�omhphoist seo ar fhait�os v�r�s. Important Notice The information in this e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may also be legally privileged. In particular (but not by way of limitation) the National Museum of Ireland disclaims all responsibility and accepts no liability for any e-mails or their attachments which are defamatory, offensive, racist or which in any other way are in breach of an individuals rights, including breach of confidence, privacy or other rights. If you have received this e-mail message in error, inform us immediately at ithelpd...@museum.ie and delete it and all copies from your system. This footnote also confirms that this e-mail message has been checked for the presence of computer viruses.
RE: [pestlist] vapona
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. --- Barbara It would be good to have a short section in your book about health and safety in relation to chemicals used in collections. It could refer to variations in international standards and online availability of Material Data Safety Sheets (http://www.msds.com/) for all compounds which would allow users to make themselves aware of what they are using, or encountering in old collections, regardless of in which country they are based. The SPNHC volume on Health Safety for Museum Professionals is a good point to which your readers could be directed. In Ireland (and much of Europe which follows standards set centrally in Brussels by the EU) it is an obligation on suppliers of bulk chemicals to make MSDS available to purchasers, this does not extend to packaging of products such as Vapona however (which is banned here but can still be found at the back of old hardware stores) but if you know the active ingredient you can check the MSDS. Nigel Mr Nigel T. Monaghan, Keeper, Natural History Division, National Museum of Ireland, Merrion Street, Dublin 2, IRELAND +353-1-6486354 (phone) +353-1-6486380 (fax) nmonag...@museum.ie www.museum.ie -Original Message- From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Anderson, Gretchen Sent: 09 June 2014 12:03 To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] vapona 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. --- Thanks Lou. I have wondered if there was a new formulation. Barbara Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Louis Sorkin sor...@amnh.org 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. --- Vapona (Dichlorvos) is under a different formulation than it was years ago. Produced now as Nuvan strip made by AMVAC. Also as Hot Shot No Pest Strip. It's not registered in Canada. It's an organophosphate insecticide, a cholinesterase inhibitor action material. Atropine is the antidote. Different ones are formulated for professional use and some for general public use. I think it's a big problem in letting the public use it; they really don't read the instructions that well. I really don't know if I'd include it as a product for your book, unless of course, you are also including other insecticides and pros and cons. Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. Entomologist, Arachnologist Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, New York 10024-5192 sor...@amnh.org 212-769-5613 voice 212-769-5277 fax The New York Entomological Society, Inc. www.nyentsoc.org n...@amnh.org From: ad...@museumpests.net [ad...@museumpests.net] on behalf of aa...@mindspring.com [aa...@mindspring.com] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 1:27 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] vapona 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 am working on the pest control chapter of my next book. Question: I have a note to myself from the March meeting about increasing moth problems and the usefulness of Vapona. Should I be recommending this? Barbara Appelbaum -- 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
RE: [pestlist] Potato Flour and Pests on FURS
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. --- For video footage of wet cleaning of taxidermy (a tiger mounted in 1913) see about 1-2 minutes into this documentary at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEgFUZgkbtsfeature=relmfu This shows work at the taxidermy studio of a Dutch family firm www.jacbouten.comhttp://www.jacbouten.com Their standard cleaning technique for mammals is a thorough shampoo, water rinse, and rapid dry using sawdust, then blowing sawdust out with compressed air. The aim is to work quickly before the hide starts to soak up water and change dimensions. This has been done for many hundreds of specimens from our collections and also applied to other major museums, mostly in the Netherlands. Nigel Mr Nigel T. Monaghan, Keeper, Natural History Division, National Museum of Ireland, Merrion Street, Dublin 2, IRELAND +353-1-6486354 (phone) +353-1-6486380 (fax) nmonag...@museum.iemailto:nmonag...@museum.ie www.museum.ieblocked::outbind://24/www.museum.ie Group Bookings should be addressed to booki...@museum.iemailto:booki...@museum.ie Research visitors must make appointments in advance of any proposed visit. Visit: See our profile and download the App at www.dublinculturetrail.iehttp://www.dublinculturetrail.ie/Venue.aspx?id=120bc173-a5de-4b8d-ab1d-7568d9a34b11 Watch: We are one of the Dublin stories on www.storymap.iehttp://www.storymap.ie/ also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunX2u_mQWw Hear: Chopped, pickled and stuffed online radio at www.rte.ie/radio1/choppedpickledandstuffedhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/choppedpickledandstuffed Read: Guide to the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, €5.95 from Museum Shops Follow: Spoticus, our Rothschild's giraffe who speaks his own mind on Twitter http://twitter.com/SpotticusNH Enjoy: Dead Zoo - the poem that won a prize at http://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/ted-mcnulty-prize.html Count: Using the maths trail of Dublin from Ingenious Irelandhttp://ingeniousireland.ie/2011/10/launch-of-new-maths-trails-dublin-by-numbers/ and measure a giant deer Member: Merrion Square Innovation Network www.merrionsquare.iehttp://www.merrionsquare.ie/ Winners: Best Access and Outreach Initiative - Museum of the Year Awards 2004 Winners: UCD President's Grants for Teaching 2004 and 2005 From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Fiona Graham Sent: 26 November 2012 16:33 To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] Potato Flour and Pests on FURS 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. --- Re. Potato Flour and Pests Potato flour and cornmeal are common, traditional ways of cleaning furs. As they leave residues that attract pests, it's preferable to use an inedible cleaning material. At the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in the early 1990's we used very fine gauge glass beads to clean taxidermy specimens. The beads were rubbed into the fur by hand (wearing gloves) and then vacuumed out. If I recall correctly, this technique worked better on short-haired mammals than on long-haired ones. For more information on cleaning techniques for taxidermy, you can refer to the articles by Sarah Spafford-Ricci and me in the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation archives. http://cool.conservation-us.org/jaic/articles/jaic39-01-003_indx.html The post-prints of the conference Fur Trade Legacy: The Preservation of Organic Materials (Eds. Jim Burns and Margot Brunn, Canadian Association for Conservation, 2005) may also be a useful reference. Fiona Graham, MAC, CAPC, CAHP Associate Goldsmith Borgal Company Ltd. Architects 410 Adelaide Street West, #500 Toronto, Ontario M5V 1S8 Tel.: (416) 929-6556, #112 Fax: (416) 929-4745 E-mail: fi...@gbca.camailto:fi...@gbca.ca Web: www.gbca.cahttp://www.gbca.ca From: Jerry Shiner i...@keepsafe.camailto:i...@keepsafe.ca To: pestlist@museumpests.netmailto:pestlist@museumpests.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 10:53:52 AM Subject: RE: [pestlist] Potato Flour and Pests on FURS 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. --- My family began cleaning fur garments s in the 1920's. The trick is to clean the fur without affecting (removing oils) from the pelt. Immersion will usually ruin the pelts, so a granular material is used to scrub the individual hairs. I've never heard of potato flour being used, but it makes
