Tom, I did that, successfully, to the space beneath the compactors in a major
museum here in the Kansas City area. The museum was plagued with odd beetle,
cabinet beetle and spiders, including brown recluse. I drilled holes on
approximately 8 foot centers. This was done in 1987-8 time frame. I checked
back about 5 or 6 years later and, while they still had problems in other areas
of the museum, they were having none in that area..Forrest E. St. Aubin,
BCEChair, ESA-ACE Oversight CommitteeLiaison, ESA/NPMA12835 Pembroke
CircleLeawood, Kansas 66209Phone: 913.927.9588Fax: 913.345.8008E-mail:
[email protected]: www.saintaubinbce.com"Procrastination is
opportunity's assassin."Victor Kiam, entrepreneur1926-2001-----Original
Message-----From: [email protected]: 08/20/2009 02:25 PMTo:
[email protected]: Re: [pestlist] red-legged ham beetles in a
mammal collection Cindy - One of the problems with compactors is the
rails are often set in a raised plywood floor platform. The rails have small
openings in them, which allow infestation to gain access to the voids beneath
the plywood floor. These small infestations act as a reservoir for populating
the collections. The same can be said for the 4" void of the "kick plate"
beneath ranges of cabinetry. At least for ranges of cabinetry, drilling a
small hole beneath each cabinet in the 4" kick plate and dusting the void with
Drione (silica gel and pyrethrum) gives long-term protection against reservoir
pest populations. Perhaps there would be a way of introducing Drione into the
voids beneath the raised floor. Thomas A. Parker, PhD President,
Entomologist Pest Control Services, Inc. 469 Mimosa Circle Kennett
Square, PA 19348 610-444-2277 Office 610-444-2615 Fax 610-348-9890 Cell
[email protected] www.museumpestcontrol.com -----Original
Message----- From: Cindy A Ramotnik <[email protected]> To:
[email protected] Sent: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 12:05 pm Subject: [pestlist]
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Greetings, We have a (currently small) problem with red-legged ham beetles
in our mammal collection and would like suggestions on how best to eliminate
them. While moving the contents of 2 cases of boxed wolf skeletons from one
case to another we discovered several live adult red-legged ham beetles in a
few of the boxes. Closer inspection of the contents of all boxes revealed a few
additional beetles, as well as some on the sticky traps that were in the bottom
of each case. We bagged and froze all boxes from the 2 original infested cases
and vacuumed the 4 (emptied) cases with a HEPA-filtered vacuum cleaner. A few
days later while inspecting the empty cases we discovered 2 additional
red-legged ham beetles on sticky traps in 2 of the cases. At this point we
decided to inspect all sticky traps inside museum cases in the room (400 cases)
and detected 7 additional cases that contained the beetle. The museum cases are
on compactors and we have since vacuumed the floor of the entire collection
room, including the rails, to eliminate any beetles on the move. What can
we do to eliminate the beetles, and to ensure that the museum case is bug-free
after freezing the contents? We can bag and freeze the contents of all infested
cases but it’s counterproductive to return them to a case that may still
contain red-legged ham beetles. Being unable to freeze the case itself, we have
resorted to vacuuming the inside. Is there a better method? We believe we
know the source of the problem and have since instituted measures to prevent a
reoccurrence. But for now we need to deal with the buggy hand we’ve been
dealt.. Thanks for your suggestions. Cindy Cindy Ramotnik U.S.
Geological Survey Museum of Southwestern Biology Department of Biology MSC03
2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 505-277-5369
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