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Stephanie - I hope the pest management firm put the Nuvan strips in their cardboard pockets so the strips themselves wouldn't touch the books. If the strip(s) touched the books, some of the Vapona may have migrated into the covers. Not a good thing. If they've done the "fumigation" correctly, as long as you've allowed the books to aerate for a few hours, you can vacuum them and return them to circulation. Tom Parker -----Original Message----- From: Stephanie A. Lamson <[email protected]> To: pestlist <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:58 am Subject: [pestlist] concerns re: NUVAN and freezing for bed bugs This is a message from the Museumpests List. o post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] o unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ---------------------------------------------------------- 'm hoping that some of you can help with advice on bed bugs and treatments for ibrary materials. We have had three separate incidents of books (all hardcovers) returned to the ibraries with bed bugs hiding in the spine hollow. In one instance, there were t least five live bed bugs in the affected book, along with an egg on the eadband, and staining on the textblock near the spine hollow. One time the affected books were bagged and a pest control company inserted a UVAN strip for two weeks: ttp://www.myadapco.com/res/pdf/msds/Nuvan%20MSDS.pdf We've been told that we can now return the books to the collection as long as we llow the materials to off-gas for 2-6 hours. Given this treatment, would it be afe to return these to the circulating collection for use and to have our onservation staff vacuum the affected books? In another incident, we bagged all the books and put them in a walk-in freezer at least -20) in another location on campus. We did 7 days in the freezer, 6 ays out, and are planning another 7 days in the freezer. Would you recommend a horter cycle/combo for a -20 freezer? And if we used a 0 freezer, what cycle ould you recommend? While we know that the bed bugs won't damage books per se, we want to make sure hat they don't find a home in our facilities over time. Thanks for your help! tephanie __________________________________ tephanie Lamson reservation Librarian niversity of Washington Libraries [email protected] 06-543-4890 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- o 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 he subject put: unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. o change to the DIGEST mode send an mail 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]
