Thank you, Joel and Pat for your answers. I understand the complexity of the issue, and appreciate the ideas on how to organize and restructure.
At the moment it is just me checking traps, and in most areas there has been zero to very little pest activity, but other areas have fairly regular moderate activity. My main takeaway is that when activity is spotted, instead of 'spamming' the area with more blunder traps, a better action plan is to utilize pheromone traps. I watched the Stressed about Pests presentation you gave, Pat, from 2014, and see how beneficial that system can be. I think pheromone traps will be a great asset for us, it's just a matter of getting everyone on board. Until then, we are revamping our data input spreadsheet, and I will take advantage of that with a trap layout overhaul. Thank you again for the information. Julie On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 4:57:26 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello, All > > Happy Halloween! > > Could anyone point me to a good reference to learn about best practices > for *how* *many* traps to lay out in areas of certain sizes, with certain > collections, with certain histories of pests? In my attempts to unify our > IPM system, I'm running into areas with tons of traps (60+) and areas with > sparse traps. I know the mentality of some is an avoidance of pheromone > traps, which then means needing to 'spam' areas with blunder traps so you > know what's there. I would love to find some references that can show the > best balance of pheromone and blunder traps together, and what > concentration is optimal. > > I looked through muesumpests.net, but didn't see reference to this in > particular. Another article/book/or professional experience would be much > appreciated. > > Cheers! > > Julie McInnis > Collections Care Assistant > Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/67c1b908-6bde-4b34-b3f5-c8afd4c905e7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
