I’m guessing that ‘volatile fat soluble’ should be ‘volatile and fat soluble’, so volatile enough to make it from the trap to the object and soluble enough in the artist’s material such that it becomes more likely to stay on the art than to return to the gas phase, leaving the object.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 1:51 PM To: Museumpests <[email protected]> Subject: [External] - [pestlist] Concerns of Using Pheromone Traps Hello Pestlist Community, I recently came across a correspondence between a predecessor and an adviser in the museum pest field that highlights potential dangers of using pheromone traps that led this person to not recommend them. Concerns were: 1) Pheromone traps attracted not only the target insect but other insects that were attracted to the smell of the target insect. 2) Volatile fat soluble pheromones can be absorbed by materials and artifacts that then make them attractive to insects (including people/clothing). They mentioned that this was all thoroughly researched and supported by literature (message is from 2012). Point #1 could be improved by regularly replacing traps with pests on them. Point #2 I'm less sure about, as I am unfamiliar with whether the pheromones we use are 'volitile fat' or not. I don't like the idea of becoming a walking moth lure, but having not read this anywhere else I'm doubtful if it's indeed true. I would love to hear thoughts about either of these points. Regards, Julie 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[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/9d0417a9-b3a8-4e5a-a327-64edce3b3bc8%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/9d0417a9-b3a8-4e5a-a327-64edce3b3bc8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/BN7PR05MB62746AAFA0A4778656156118E3890%40BN7PR05MB6274.namprd05.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
