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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi Barbara
We treated an Aboriginal scarred tree here recently. The tree was hollowed out and had also been stored outdoors for a prolonged period. The tree was about 4 yards long and 2-3 yards in diameter. The tree was sprayed inside and out with a product called Perigen (it contains permethrin - a low-toxic synthetic pyrethroid) using a pressure sprayer. It was allowed to dry for an hour before another application was carried out. We also repeated the process a week later. The treatment revealed that the tree had been home to all manner of bugs, including silverfish, cockroaches and red-back spiders (these are similar to your black widow spiders, if you gave them a gun). The subsequent application didn't reveal any further insect activity. I can send photos of the treatment if you like? Best wishes Alex Alex Roach Heritage Pest Management On 20/08/2011, at 1:52 AM, 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] 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] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
