Good information. Drione dust works forever as long as it doesn't get wet. Thanks, Forrest.
Tom Parker -----Original Message----- From: Forrest St. Aubin <forr...@saintaubinbce.com> To: pestlist@museumpests.net Sent: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 4:42 pm Subject: Re: [pestlist] red-legged ham beetles in a mammal collection 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, BCE Chair, ESA-ACE Oversight Committee Liaison, ESA/NPMA 12835 Pembroke Circle Leawood, Kansas 66209 Phone: 913.927.9588 Fax: 913.345.8008 E-mail: forr...@saintaubinbce.com Website: www.saintaubinbce.com "Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." Victor Kiam, entrepreneur 1926-2001 -----Original Message----- From: bugma...@aol.com Date: 08/20/2009 02:25 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: 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 reservo ir 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 bugma...@aol.com www.museumpestcontrol.com -----Original Message----- From: Cindy A Ramotnik <ramot...@unm.edu> To: pestlist@museumpests.net Sent: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 12:05 pm Subject: [pestlist] red-legged ham beetles in a mammal collection This is a message from the Pest Management Database List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestl...@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 contents20of 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 =0 AAlbuquerque, NM 87131-0001 505-277-5369 ------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestl...@museumpests.com To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@zaks.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
