Thank you to all, pointing out my mistake; "pheromone is not good for you".
As I wrote below There are precautions however as stated on the labels.
Pheromone traps should never be used unless you intentionally want to
increase your insect population.
Baited traps have the ability to pull from the outside. Should you touch the
traps pheromone is not good for you.
Bill,
ACI
Pheromone was developed to monitor food warehouses in the 1950's for,
India Meal moth, Mediterranean Flour moth, Raisin moth, Tobacco moth,
Angounois
Grain moth. It was later found to work with Clothes moth and Webbing moth as
well as others. A good reason why I am against there use related to Art. It
attracts many different moths not just clothes, webbing or casemaking moths.
One person suggested the traps do not pull very far. I am not sure how
far and research has been difficult to find. But if pheromone traps were to be
placed by a door to a hallway leading to a cafeteria, loading dock or other
infested areas you can pull from outside the storage area.
Pheromone works during matting maybe once a year to 4 times a year
depending how long the infestation has been indoors. It works on the males
flying
around looking for females that are most likely stationary, on a food source.
One research reported traps collected about 45% of the males in a controlled
room. That still left plenty of males to continue the cycle. Before the
males reach the traps they may have already visited the females. One study
suggested there's communication between the male and female during the mating
cycle.
Pheromone traps are just to monitor as plain sticky traps are. I prefer
plain as it give me a better feel in locating an infestation. If a trap is
pulling from other areas it adds confusion in localizing the activity.
Should you touch the pheromone sticky part of the trap you can transfer
pheromone to handled objects, if not washed off correctly.
Pheromone traps are a monitoring device not a treatment.
Once again I apologize for my mistake. I answered the e-mail as I
was leaving for my mapping, the beginning of my radiation treatments. I wasn't
really focused on what I had said.
Bill
ACI
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