Less humans less disturbance less pest roving around. So they hunkered down
too. I can see that. Booklice in general need a decent amount of humility at
least in a micro climate setting. They have been early indicators here of
building envelope issues, plumbing problems, or HVAC set point or tolerances
being off. JTV
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Pretty much both. I didn't catch much but booklice and had fewer than usual.
Otherwise those traps were pretty clean pre-pandemic through post-return. We
run a tight ship, though we do tend to have booklice and mites (for some odd
reason).
The more I think about it, the more I think that human activity also disturbs
things, and so during the work-from-home phase not much was moved around, so
booklice tended to stay put.
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Alan,
Do you mean there were 33% fewer booklice or that what was trapped during the
work-from-home phase was almost all booklice?
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I didn't go through stats for the whole building, but rather chose one floor
that has a lot of people on it. During the work-from-home phase of the
pandemic we did see about a 33% reduction in trapped pests. What's weird is it
is made up almost entirely of booklice. Once people started showing back up to
work the numbers have increased to their pre-pandemic levels.
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We saw an increase in pests (specifically cockroaches and rodents) associated
with absence of people, published Sept 2020 in the SPNHC newsletter (article
attached). We also saw a pretty significant (didn’t test for significance) of
all non-pests from our March-May 2020 cycle through the October-November 2020
cycle, seeing somewhat of a return to normal for November-December 2021.
Classes returned to campus in August 2020, and we spray our building twice
annually, with one occurring in late October or early November. See the
Trapping_All_jan-Feb document for a graph of our five year
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Rodents dropped off in January 2021 (an additional 7 between the August 14,
2020 cut off of the publication) with continued increased presence in the
building. And we’ve had none (with continued weekly trapping) since Jan
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