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Yes it does, gritty. Our collection is now in a concrete block building and I haven't seen any new damage, but in another place I work, a wooden building, I have active borers eating the building and the collection and that is a much bigger problem that is another conversation. A question about tropical borers surviving in air-conditioned rooms - does the lower temperature make a difference or do they not care so much as it's warm in the book... Regards, Melissa Subject: Re: [pestlist] Pests in Tonga From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:15:56 +1000 To: [email protected] 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 Melissa This looks like borer damage. Some borers can cause extensive to books. Does the frass have a gritty feel to it (like hour-glass sand)? Best wishesAlex Alex RoachHeritage Pest Management On 19/09/2012, at 9:14 AM, Melissa Neidorf <[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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi Alex, Here is a picture of the cover of a photo album that an insect or different insects have eaten. I think it happened several years ago when the collection was stored somewhere else. It seems to be a problem with cardboard covered albums and old books, but they go through paper and photos to Thanks for you help, Regards, Melissa From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pestlist] Pests in Tonga Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:36:12 +1000 To: [email protected] 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 Melissa The photos haven't come through. Can you retry? Best wishesAlex On 18/09/2012, at 8:14 AM, Melissa Neidorf 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dear Tony and Alex, Thank you both very much for the information you have given me, I'll add it to the presentations I'm making. We also found silverfish last week in another building, and they have done a lot of damage to those records, but not as much as the mice! It's inevitable in these climates, conditions and under resourced regions. I have some photos of damaged documents and photos that I would appreciate some assistance with identifying which critter did what damage, if possible. Let me know if anything of my situation is of interest to your research. Thanks again, Melissa From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [pestlist] Pests in Tonga Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:04:46 +0100 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 Melissa Just to expand/correct Alex's reply : 5 is a paper wasp (Polistes or close relative) 6 is a woodlouse (=slater) 7 is a cuckoo wasp (Chrysididae) None of these creatures (with the possible exception of the cockroaches) is likely to do much damage to your collections. My main concern would be that if dead insect material builds up, then other more damaging pests might thrive. Regular cleaning and monitoring, as you describe, will be the best defence. Best wishes Tony Irwin Dr A.G.Irwin, Natural History Department, Castle Museum Study Centre, Shirehall, Market Avenue, Norwich NR1 3JQ, England. Tel:+44 1603 493642. E-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Alex Roach Sent: 14 September 2012 08:52 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pestlist] Pests in Tonga 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 Melissa I don't really see anything of real concern in this group. We do tend to find large numbers of bugs in and around buildings in the tropics. Most of the bugs (and gheckos) are common, but I don't have the scientific name for them. The list is: 1) Centipede (predaceous on other insects) 2) Cockroach (omnivorous - will eat just about anything) 3) Ghecko (predaceous on insects) 4) Ghecko with optional moth (predaceous on insects) 5) Wasp 6) Millipede or slater (feed on decaying plant material, timber) 7) Fly 8 and 9) Moths (probably adults of a lawn grub or similar) 10) Spider 11 and 12) They look like click beetles (feed on plant material and are attracted to light. I'm in Hawaii at the moment, but will send you a list and some photos of some of the bugs we commonly find in the tropics when I return to Australia. Best wishes Alex Alex Roach Heritage Pest Management On 13/09/2012, at 4:04 PM, Melissa Neidorf <[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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hello pest list, We are working at the Tonga Traditions Committee (TTC) in Nuku’alofa, the capital of the Kingdom of Tonga. We have an historical archive with mostly paper and photographic material. There are also textiles, wood and metal items. An Integrated Pest Management Plan was introduced July 2011 and we have happily caught too many insects to count. Given the tropical climate, a building that is not sealable, the vast array of insects and pests, and the limited resources here, we have been very successful in reducing the number of insects week by week using what is available - a can of Mortein surface spray and black plastic small square cockroach bait holders and squashing/removing them. We have rodent traps, sticky traps, cleaning, waste removal and ongoing inspections and awareness training. Our archive is air conditioned which is the best deterrent for tropical insects and pests, but power outages occur and can go for days or weeks especially in cyclone (hurricane) season. I have been training the staff in IPM, insect capture, ID and which type of insects cause what damage to paper, photos textiles etc. I now I am hoping that some people on Pest list have time/inclination to help us add in more accurate information. I’ll be putting together a powerpoint for ongoing training of staff here and other record keeping/archives/museums in Tonga, so any information given will be shared around. <Album Insect Damage.JPG> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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