RE: [pestlist] mouse trap bait
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. --- Interesting... may try that. Thanks! Dee From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Voron, Joel Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:07 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] mouse trap bait This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Tootsie roll slices attached with a hot glue gun. I have incredible success with that as a bait. If you use mini t-rex traps the bait will work for years as the other mice can't get to it when it snaps shut. Joel Voron Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Conservation Dept. Integrated Pest Management Office 757-220-7080 Cell 757-634-1175 E-Mail jvo...@cwf.org<mailto:jvo...@cwf.org> [1474552137245_IMG_0499.JPG] From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net> <pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net>> on behalf of Dee Stubbs-Lee <dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca<mailto:dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca>> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 10:57:35 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> Subject: [pestlist] mouse trap bait This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Hi everyone, I am looking for suggestions for bait for snap trap style mouse traps in our collections storage areas. We previously used peanut butter with some success, but concerns have been raised about potential staff and visitor allergies due to the peanut butter potentially being spread around and urinated out by the mice who escape the traps. I read somewhere that gummy bears might work as bait, but that was in the context of rat traps and I have not yet tried them for mice. (Thankfully, we don't have a rat problem!). Obviously, I would prefer a solution that will not add to our insect pest issues. Total exclusion of mice is difficult if not impossible as we are in an old building with an infinite number of possible entry points. Dee Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA Conservator / Restauratrice New Brunswick Museum/ Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick E2K 1E5 Canada (506)643-2341 - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.com> - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.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
[pestlist] mouse trap bait
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. --- Hi everyone, I am looking for suggestions for bait for snap trap style mouse traps in our collections storage areas. We previously used peanut butter with some success, but concerns have been raised about potential staff and visitor allergies due to the peanut butter potentially being spread around and urinated out by the mice who escape the traps. I read somewhere that gummy bears might work as bait, but that was in the context of rat traps and I have not yet tried them for mice. (Thankfully, we don't have a rat problem!). Obviously, I would prefer a solution that will not add to our insect pest issues. Total exclusion of mice is difficult if not impossible as we are in an old building with an infinite number of possible entry points. Dee Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA Conservator / Restauratrice New Brunswick Museum/ Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick E2K 1E5 Canada (506)643-2341 - 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
RE: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed
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. --- Interesting, thanks Tom. Dee From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of bugman22 Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 9:37 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Dee - What you are catching on your glueboards means one thing; they are flying to lights affixed to your building at night, dropping down to the perimeter, and then walking into your building. It's time to tighten up your building's exterior envelope. Change your mercury vapor lights to sodium vapor ones. Tom Parker -Original Message- From: Dee Stubbs-Lee <dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca<mailto:dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca>> To: pestlist <pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net>> Sent: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 4:02 pm Subject: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Hi everyone, I have recently had a few unwanted visitors in our basement level storage (primarily textiles and ethnographic materials). I have attached a couple of blunder trap images with a tape measure in centimeters for scale. I believe the first image shows a hide beetle, partially chewed by the adjacent smaller beetle (black carpet beetle?). Can anyone confirm? I have very occasionally had these before. On the second trap, the black one at the top I have also seen before and have been previously told it was a mealworm beetle. The two lower ones are new to me and appear to be the same species as each other. The photo doesn’t show it well, but they are an iridescent copper colour. These were on a common blunder trap that was near a pheromone trap for beetles (I’m experimenting) that has attracted larder beetles – may be a clue? Any thoughts? Thanks, Dee Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA Conservator / Restauratrice New Brunswick Museum/ Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick E2K 1E5 Canada (506)643-2341 - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.com> - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.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
RE: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed
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. --- Thanks, that’s helpful! Dee From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Insect Identification Services Ltd Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 7:26 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] beetle ID help needed This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Megan is correct - the first trap is one of the Rove beetle species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) all beetles on the second trap are all Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), the two 'bronzey' examples (bottom left and middle) are Carabus sp. and the one top right another carabid species. All are incidentals and of no pest status, but if these large beetles can get in then so can other potentially pest species so screening on ground floor windows and bristle strips on bottoms of doors would be worth considering. All the best, Stuart -- Stuart Hine Entomological Consultant [http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv189/bombuslucorum1/High%20Res%20Logo_zpsa9axq9kw.jpg] Web: http://www.insectidentification.co.uk/ Email: i...@insectidentification.co.uk<mailto:i...@insectidentification.co.uk> Tel: +44 7392 854405 On 7 July 2016 at 21:00, Dee Stubbs-Lee <dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca<mailto:dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca>> wrote: This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Hi everyone, I have recently had a few unwanted visitors in our basement level storage (primarily textiles and ethnographic materials). I have attached a couple of blunder trap images with a tape measure in centimeters for scale. I believe the first image shows a hide beetle, partially chewed by the adjacent smaller beetle (black carpet beetle?). Can anyone confirm? I have very occasionally had these before. On the second trap, the black one at the top I have also seen before and have been previously told it was a mealworm beetle. The two lower ones are new to me and appear to be the same species as each other. The photo doesn’t show it well, but they are an iridescent copper colour. These were on a common blunder trap that was near a pheromone trap for beetles (I’m experimenting) that has attracted larder beetles – may be a clue? Any thoughts? Thanks, Dee Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA Conservator / Restauratrice New Brunswick Museum/ Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick E2K 1E5 Canada (506)643-2341 - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.com> -- Stuart Hine Entomological Consultant [http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv189/bombuslucorum1/High%20Res%20Logo_zpsa9axq9kw.jpg] Web: http://www.insectidentification.co.uk/ Email: i...@insectidentification.co.uk<mailto:i...@insectidentification.co.uk> Tel: +44 7392 854405 - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net<mailto:imail...@museumpests.net> and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com<mailto:l...@zaks.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
RE: [pestlist] ID Help please
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. --- Hi, I have just tried again and unfortunately I still can't get in. There is an error message at the top after I log in saying that my account has expired. I tried to take a screen shot for you but your email program is plain text so it won't let me post it. Dee -Original Message- From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of l...@zaks.com Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 9:08 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] ID Help please 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. --- Done. -Original Message- From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Jablonski, Megan T CIV NHHC, NUM Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 5:02 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] ID Help please 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. --- Hello everyone, I am hoping someone can help me identify some of these pests. I have already identified the springtails, but I am worried about the flying insects I have been finding in our Collections storage (particularly the insect on Trap 7). Please help! Thank you, Megan Jablonski Collections Manager Puget Sound Navy Museum Naval History & Heritage Command 251 1st Street Bremerton, WA 98337 p. (360) 627-2288 f. (360) 627-2273 www.PugetSoundNavyMuseum.org www.history.navy.mil/PSNM www.facebook.com/pugetsoundnavymuseum FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY - PRIVACY SENSITIVE: ANY MISUSE OR UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE MAY RESULT IN BOTH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES. - 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" 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" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
RE: [pestlist] ID Help please
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. --- Thank you! -Original Message- From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of l...@zaks.com Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 9:08 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] ID Help please 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. --- Done. -Original Message- From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Jablonski, Megan T CIV NHHC, NUM Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 5:02 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] ID Help please 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. --- Hello everyone, I am hoping someone can help me identify some of these pests. I have already identified the springtails, but I am worried about the flying insects I have been finding in our Collections storage (particularly the insect on Trap 7). Please help! Thank you, Megan Jablonski Collections Manager Puget Sound Navy Museum Naval History & Heritage Command 251 1st Street Bremerton, WA 98337 p. (360) 627-2288 f. (360) 627-2273 www.PugetSoundNavyMuseum.org www.history.navy.mil/PSNM www.facebook.com/pugetsoundnavymuseum FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY - PRIVACY SENSITIVE: ANY MISUSE OR UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE MAY RESULT IN BOTH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES. - 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" 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" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
RE: [pestlist] Floor covering in Directors Office
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 can vouch for this – many of my museum’s collections storage areas are carpeted (a situation I inherited rather than chose). Despite having desperately low RH in the building most of the winter, we still often see silverfish in the carpeted rooms – a moldy microclimate under the carpets, I’m guessing. Dee Dee A. Stubbs-Lee, MA, CAPC Conservator The New Brunswick Museum Saint John, New Brunswick Canada E2K 1E5 tel: (506) 643-2341 www.nbm-mnb.ca From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Margaret Geiss-Mooney Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:12 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] Floor covering in Directors Office 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. --- Good evening, PestList’lers – I also point out that a large expanse of any floor covering made from a natural fibre, whether sisal or wool, cotton, jute, etc., will also absorb and hold a lot more moisture out of the environment where it is installed than a floor covering made from one of the synthetic fibres (i.e. acrylic, nylon, etc.). So if your floors do not have a vapor barrier properly installed, the floor covering will act like a giant sponge, sucking up moisture from the floor/ground. If your building does not have the relative humidity controlled, the natural fibre floor covering will make it even more complicated to control. Mould/mildew spores will love it and flourish with abandon….ugh…especially on the side in direct contact with the floor and away from the light (mould/mildew is considered a ‘pest’, right?). Any finish applied to a floor covering, whether fire retardant or stain repellency, will be rubbed off as the floor covering is walked on/have stuff dragged across it. Meaning it would have to be reapplied periodically. So the carrier fluid would be contaminating the space again, whether water (raising the RH in the environment) or some other fluid which would off-gas in to the space as it dries. Feel free to contact me off-list if you need further clarification. Regards, Meg . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ Margaret E. Geiss-Mooney Textile/Costume Conservator Collections Management Consultant Professional Associate - AIC 707-763-8694 mgmoo...@moonware.netmailto:mgmoo...@moonware.net I am writing about the choice of floor covering requested by the Director's Office at our art museum. They are interested in installing either Sisal or Wool sisal in the Directors office. There will also be two or three accessioned paintings exhibited in this space as well. I am concerned about the tastiness of both of these choices (sisal and wool sisal) to potential critters. The Director's office is in a different corridor than the art collections however I am concerned about creating a potentially amiable environment for pests in general within the museum. What do people think? Should I continue to advocate for synthetic flooring options which have heretofore not been of interest unfortunately? I do not believe that they will be using a foam pad under the rug which is a good thing to avoid any potential off-gassing of the foam. I am also concerned that a fire retardant applied to the sisal may be necessary from a safety point of view. I will off course follow-up with an exam of the MSDS sheet of the fire retardant. But basically my question has to do with whether or not a large expanse of sisal is of concern to nearby collections on display. I don't want to be a PEST! -- 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.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
RE: [pestlist] Floor covering in Directors Office
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 guess the big question is what is the proximity of the director’s office to the collections on exhibit or in storage, especially the more vulnerable materials? The shorter the distance, the more urgent the problem. That should help put the risk in the appropriate context. Dee Dee A. Stubbs-Lee, MA, CAPC Conservator The New Brunswick Museum Saint John, New Brunswick Canada E2K 1E5 tel: (506) 643-2341 www.nbm-mnb.ca From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Ingrid A. Neuman Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:15 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net; pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] Floor covering in Directors Office 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. --- I REALLY appreciate everyone weighing in on this issue!! Your opinions are very interesting to me and those involved in the ordering of the Director's rug. This is as good example as any of the many tangential issues that as conservators we are involved with in any museum. Gratefully, Ingrid Neuman -Original Message- From: p...@rancholosalamitos.commailto:p...@rancholosalamitos.com Sent: May 24, 2012 12:50 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.netmailto:pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] Floor covering in Directors Office 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. --- I’m not a conservator or an entomologist, but the largest infestation of silverfish I ever saw was beneath a 9’ round sisal rug on a travertine tile floor. Ugghhh! Pamela Young Lee Curator of Collections Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch Gardens Long Beach, CA 90815 -- 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 -- 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] FW: Zak's software
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 Leon, Good suggestions. In my experience, I have quite often found frass piles on my sticky traps without the associated pest being trapped. Not sure how they get away, but they manage... Dee Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA Conservator, The New Brunswick Museum 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick Canada E2K 1E5 telephone: (506) 643-2341 fax: (506) 643-2360 e-mail: dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca www.nbm-mnb.ca -Original Message- From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Leon Zak Sent: August 8, 2011 10:48 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] FW: Zak's software 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 Dee- I would create a new pest called mouse droppings, the risk would be Indicator. If you don't have mouse traps set it could easily happen that you have mice without actually seeing one. I would also track mouse damage although there's bound to be droppings around any damage. There is a Notes field with each observation so in the case of damage there would be some merit to tracking it and describing it in the notes field. Then you've got a tracking of the damage history. We do have a search in the works that will let you pull all records that have a particular word or phrase in the notes field. We are expanding the export that is currently by start and end date to include filtering by other fields. As far as the tracking a reduction to frass of a pest I'll leave that to those more knowledgeable. I would think that anything feeding off of a trapped pest would itself be caught. leon ... -Original Message- From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Dee Stubbs-Lee Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 3:56 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] FW: Zak's software 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, Zak. These all sound like great improvements! I tried Zak's a few years ago but didn't stick with it. I'm looking forward to trying it again soon. One dilemma I've not found a great solution to in any tracking method (and I'm hoping someone may have a suggestion) is how to track things of note when there is no actual body count available on the sticky traps -- perhaps mouse droppings, or a previously trapped insect subsequently being reduced to a frass pile by some other insect the next month. Any thoughts? Dee Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA Conservator, The New Brunswick Museum 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick Canada E2K 1E5 telephone: (506) 643-2341 fax: (506) 643-2360 e-mail: dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca www.nbm-mnb.ca -Original Message- From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Leon Zak Sent: August 5, 2011 4:38 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] FW: Zak's software 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 - One of the advantages of this type of list and having the person that designs and writes the software is a part of the list and it provides a direct line of communication not normally available with software products. I appreciate the comments about my products and do pay attention to them. The current suggestions we've been working on were the ability to do a backup of your data to your location and the need to get an Excel accessible export. We now have answers for both. Under the utilities section there is now a one click, all inclusive backup. This is a backup that we can restore your site from. It is not readily human readable, it is made for our restore system to read. This is meant for catastrophic situations - someone mistakenly goes through and deletes a large amount of data for example. We still backup the whole site each night for our purposes. For the Excel export we've added a link on the Reports page to an Export page. There are two options on this page. The first will let you define a start and end observation date (defaulting to your first and last observations entered) and then you can download the information in a CSV file format that can easily be imported into Excel. Once in Excel it can be sorted, graphed, printed and more. The second option is a complete download of all of your images
RE: [pestlist] Digets Mode
Hi Leon, Great idea! Once per week would suit me perfectly. Thanks, Dee Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA Conservator, The New Brunswick Museum 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick Canada E2K 1E5 telephone: (506) 643-2341 fax: (506) 643-2360 e-mail: dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca www.nbm-mnb.ca From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Leon Zak Sent: April 13, 2011 10:29 AM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] Digets Mode Hello all - I'm am setting up digest capabilities for this list. Digest mode (and it is optional by user) will save the emails that have come in over a certain period and then mail them to you all at once. If the period is set to one day, all emails coming in that day would be sent to you at one time at the end of the day. I can set the digest period and the send time. Digest period options are: daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. If you think you'd like to use the digest mode, please let me know which period you would prefer - I can only set it to one. Leon Zak ZAK Software Inc. http://zaks.com
RE: [pestlist] Wrapping infested objects for freezing
At our museum, the practice is to routinely wrap and freeze most material coming in from outside the building (there is quite a lot of it as our exhibitions and collections storage are in separate buildings) in a walk in freezer unless the items are felt to be at high risk of damage from freezing. Our collections storage facility, like many, is overcrowded and infestations could potentially spread quickly -- we feel the risk of infestation outweighs the risk of damage of freezing most collections objects. I share Alyssa's concern about the wastefulness of using plastic only once (we use polyethylene sheeting, sealed with packaging tape), and we do sometimes reuse larger pieces of plastic for that reason. The idea of using a reusable freezing container sounds appealing on many levels, however, I have always been under the impression that it is important to: a) eliminate any extra air in the bag, and b) seal the bag so that it is airtight Both of those would be difficult in the case of any reusable see-through container or bag that I can imagine. Any thoughts? Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA Conservator, The New Brunswick Museum 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick Canada E2K 1E5 telephone: (506) 643-2341 fax: (506) 643-2360 e-mail: dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca www.nbm-mnb.ca -Original Message- From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net]on Behalf Of bugma...@aol.com Sent: June 3, 2009 8:35 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] Wrapping infested objects for freezing Alyssa - You pose a lot of good questions about wrapping before freezing. I think the foremost reason from wrapping is to prevent ice crystal formation on the surface of the object being frozen. Using any kind of wrap, such as muslin, kraft paper, cotton cloth, etc. will prevent this from happening. Most use zip-lock type bags, which can be re-used. If something has been properly frozen, the wrapping will not be contaminated and can be re-used. For larger mounts, you may want to consider constructing a framework box with polyethylene stapled to the 5 sides, and a Velcro fastening system for the final side for putting the mount inside and then sealing it with the Velcro attached to the perimeter of the polyethylene. This framework can therefore be used again and again. I can't imagine the object being reinfested after being properly frozen as it sits on a countertop acclimatizing; no institution has that rampant an infestation which would cause almost immediate reinfestation. Tom Parker -Original Message- From: Becker, Alyssa TPCS alyssa.bec...@gov.sk.ca To: pestlist@museumpests.net Sent: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 6:17 pm Subject: [pestlist] Wrapping infested objects for freezing Hello, Here at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum I wrap anything to be treated for insect pest infestation in polyethylene plastic prior to freezing. These objects are most often natural history specimens (mounts) and textiles or leather/hide/feathered objects from our Aboriginal History collection. Lately this practise has come into question - is it not a waste of time and resources to do this, especially since much of the plastic must be thrown away to prevent possible cross-contamination? Could the wrapping stage be eliminated for adsorbent objects in good condition? My reasons to continue wrapping are listed below. However, I wanted to pose these questions to the list for thoughts, from a practical point of view, as to whether wrapping is important, and if so, how and when. Has anyone has come up with a more environmental alternative? For example, has anyone found a line of vapour -proof, washable tubs that would do the same job for a variety of sizes of mounts? Reasons for wrapping: 1. To contain infestation while transporting specimen to the freezer 2. To prevent moisture content changes in the object during freezing, which could result in dimensional changes and physical damage 3. To prevent damage from possible freezer failure (water drips/ floods, debris from ceiling) 4. To prevent condensation from forming during its acclimatization before the bag is opened 5. To prevent (or slow) re-infestation during acclimatization Your thoughts and ideas on the subject would be most appreciated! Sincerely, Alyssa Becker Conservator Royal Saskatchewan Museum 2340 Albert Street Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 2V7 P: 306-787-2667 F: 306-787-2645 alyssa.bec...@gov.sk.ca _ Wanna slim down for summer? Go to America http://www.aolhealth.com/diet/weight-loss-program/?ncid=emlcntusheal0001 Takes it Off to learn how.
