Dear all For my options, I always make sure that whatever traps are placed, I or someone will be able to collect them and analyse the results otherwise they become dust traps, dead bodies become food for other insects and mice stick to them (yuck).
As a rule of thumb, based on the concept of Risk Zones or (Munchability) we have a protocol to define a standard for a location: For example: A store with a category A collection (high risk) will have a minimum number of blunder/floor traps based on a specification: Blunder/sticky monitors are usually placed in the corners of rooms (4 monitors) Webbing clothes moth pheromone hanging monitor, at roughly 2 metres high in the centre of a room The pheromone monitors are placed in a defined spread based on the recommendations from the information sheet which comes with the product. These will be given specific database numbers which will remain for the duration of the database. If the monitor is no longer required, the number is kept but unused otherwise it could confuse any end of year counting statistics.. When there is a new space including a gallery or a store, a larger number of monitors are placed to see what it going on but these monitors and collected information is not added to the primary spreadsheet to avoid confusion and to keep the primary database clean/ Adie Mr Adrian (Adie) Doyle Integrated Pest Management Manager Property & Facilities Management Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG Tel: 020 7323 8207 Mobile 07813 363292 Email: [email protected] The British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG britishmuseum.org<http://www.britishmuseum.org/> The security classification for this message is OFFICIAL From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan P Van Dyke Sent: 25 September 2018 14:12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pestlist] Successful Blunder Trap Naming/Numbering Conventions? This is something that will probably vary from institution to institution just because of buildings layouts, etc. My predecessor numbered traps by floor. This made it a bit overwhelming to easily determine where a trap was from, however, so I switched to numbering by room. Using a floor plan, I numbered the most northwest trap in each room as "(room number) 1" and the last trap was the most southeast. That way I have a quick sense where in the room the trap came from. And yes, the date the trap was set is always very important. Secondly, unless the room is 10,000 sq ft or there is an established infestation, 20 traps in a room seems like a lot. I inherited one floor with 99 traps that I reduced to about 35, and I still feel like it has pretty good coverage, plus I don't have to spend 4 hours collecting, replacing and counting traps for that floor alone. The trade off is that I spend more time observing conditions as I walk around that floor, but that also keeps me aware of what is happening. It was this method of looking and noting things that led to discoveries traps would have failed at. Good luck! You have quite a chore ahead, but it will be well worth planning ahead. Alan Alan Van Dyke Senior Preservation Technician Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin P.O. Drawer 7219 Austin, TX 78713-7219 P: 512-232-4614 www.hrc.utexas.edu<http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 2:41 PM [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm currently in the process of unifying all of the previously isolated trapping areas in the museum for improved integration. Does anyone have opinions about the best way to number and identify individual traps? My plan is to label them as such: Month/Year placed Room or Gallery Number - Trap # That seems straight forward, and more or less what we've been doing, but there are many rooms and some rooms have 20+ traps - some on the ground and some up on cabinets. Does it help to break large rooms up into something like A,B,C areas then the trap #? 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