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. ----------------------------------------------------------- You should look into a heat treatment instead - it's easy to arrange because exterminators are using heat for killing bed bugs.
Barbara Appelbaum On Apr 8, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Cricket Harbeck 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 All, > > Does anyone have any knowledge of or advice about using a plasma field to > treat against a webbing clothes moth infestation? I'm dealing with a > household infestation and am looking to treat furniture, clothing and rugs, > but no artwork. A company I've contacted said the best treatment method is > using plasma field, and described the process as first freezing the > materials, and then introducing a dielectric field with argon gas. They said > freezing kills the adults while the plasma field kills the eggs and > sanitizes. They say this method is better than traditional freezing, which > doesn't guarantee killing the eggs. I am an art conservator, and was trained > to freeze objects for such an infestation using a standard procedure. I'm > just really curious about this treatment and was hoping someone had some > thoughts about its use, efficacy and possible harm to the treated materials. > > Thank you very much in advance. > Cricket > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > Appelbaum & Himmelstein LLC 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]
