Hi Cathy, You are totally on the right track in thinking about heat treatment as a low cost, low tech option. Not all materials are perfectly safe in these conditions but many are and it can be very effective if done properly. Here is a link that can help guide you:
https://museumpests.net/solutions-heat-treatment-2/ Please feel free to reach out separately (contact below) if you’d like and I can probably get you in touch with some folks who are more experienced with this (I they don’t respond to this thread directly). Best, Adam Adam Osgood Collections Technician and IPM Coordinator Historic New England (he/him/his) Collections and Conservation Center 151 Essex Street Haverhill, MA 01832 617-994-6637 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Silverman, Catherine Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2022 9:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PestList] Low-cost, low-tech solutions for termite infestations? Dear Pest People My colleague and I are heading to central Africa next week to run a workshop on wood conservation. I would love to include some tips for dealing with active termite infestations. The museum is underfunded, has no climate control, and the power is unreliable (they regularly lose power for hours at a time). If anyone can point me to resources or has any ideas about low-cost, low-tech solutions for treating termite infestation, I would be very grateful. We have been vaguely thinking about ways to use solar heat…. perhaps by bagging an object and placing it in a locked car on the premises (scary by US museum standards, I realize, but it does need to be practical and this is just a germ of an idea. Please don’t shout at me!). Many thanks! Cathy Cathy Silverman Assistant Conservator of Furniture and Objects Yale University Art Gallery P.O. Box 208271 New Haven, CT 06520-8271 E: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> T: 917.834.6456 -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/DM6PR08MB3866E549DA7A816C480DF94E81889%40DM6PR08MB3866.namprd08.prod.outlook.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/DM6PR08MB3866E549DA7A816C480DF94E81889%40DM6PR08MB3866.namprd08.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/MN2PR22MB19181D311CE62F1DA762E371D6889%40MN2PR22MB1918.namprd22.prod.outlook.com.
