This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- If there is an infestation consider applying an aqueous solution of Tim-Bor. I'd be happy to take it on, or assist. Hugh Glover, Williamstown MA
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Appelbaum & Himmelstein < [email protected]> wrote: > This is a message from the Museumpests List. > To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > A corporate client in Queens, NY, has a large sculpture (10 ft. high, 4 ft. > in diameter) that is, to be blunt, a vertical hollow log with a "doorway" > cut in one side. It was exhibited outdoors in the South for some number of > years, and then was brought to New York but kept horizontal in a cradle in a > space next to an unheated loading dock. Although there was substantial > "old" insect damage at the top and bottom, no active infestation was visible > until the piece was taken out of the cradle. I am told that there was > recent damage in the areas that rested against the cradle. (I have not seen > it yet.) > > Some samples of frass are being sent to me - I am told there are no dead > bug bodies around, but that after a piece of white paper was left on the > deck, frass appeared by morning. (I suspect that maintenance staff cleaned > up without reporting anything.) > > The piece is now in a corporate lobby (nowhere near any other works of > art). > > So here are my questions: > Assuming that there is an infestation, is there any way to fix this other > than fumigation under a tarp? I don't think there is anywhere to put it for > long enough to do anoxia. > At this point, does identification of the critter matter? > Is there someone out there who can take on this job? I would be eternally > grateful. > > UPDATE: I received a baggie of debris in the mail. It looks like crumbs > of deteriorated wood to me - can't make out any frass, but I would be happy > to send it to anyone willing to check it out. Maybe the reason they > couldn't find bugs was that there weren't any. Obviously if there is an > infestation, I want to do something about it, but it may be that there was > water under the wood on the cradle and that freeze-thaw cycles resulted in > rotting and crumbling of the wood, particularly where it wouldn't have an > opportunity to dry out. > > Barbara Appelbaum > > > *Appelbaum & Himmelstein* > *444 Central Park West* > *New York, NY 10025* > *212-666-4630 (voice)* > *212-316-1039 (fax)* > *[email protected]* > *website: aandhconservation.org* > * > * > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] in > the subject put: > "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. > > You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. > To change to the DIGEST mode send an > email to [email protected] with this command in the body: > > set mode digest pestlist > > Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to [email protected] with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected]
