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Thank you for your question, I went to check back to my files and found no reasons to wonder as feather if I am not wrong are mainly Keratin based. As Keratin is clearly a good part of furs as well, I will definitely see no reasons why it should be acceptable on furs and not on feather. If I understood correctly, we are talking about backing inside and in no circumstances powdering the outside of the skins or feathers. Your concern of drying may be more related to general RH fluctuation stress rather than the root causes of using borax, but it is certainly worth looking further. You may want to check this ref : "The organic chemistry of museum objects", John S. Mills & Raymond White, Butterworths, 1987, London. Best wishes, David Cottier-Angeli Associated Member of the Swiss Chamber of Technical and Scientific Forensic Experts CottierMetal Genève Tel. +4122 300 1955 Mob. +4179 319 319 0 Le 15 oct. 2013 à 01:45, Tamar Danufsky <tamar.danuf...@humboldt.edu> a écrit : > Hi David, > > There is a belief (I don't know of any empirical evidence) among bird > preparators that borax causes feather discoloration over long periods of > time, so I have always avoided it. > > Tamar > > ****************************************************** > Tamar Danufsky > Museum Curator and > Marine Wildlife Care Center Coordinator > Department of Wildlife > Humboldt State University > Arcata, CA 95521 > phone (707)826-4034 > fax (707)826-4060 > www.humboldt.edu/wildmuseum > www.humboldt.edu/mwcc > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Cottier-Angeli <d...@cottiermetal.ch> > Date: Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:37 PM > Subject: Re: [pestlist] pest id > To: pestlist@museumpests.net > > > This is a message from the Museumpests List. > To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net > To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > You may as well mix corn meal with borax, it make sense and help buffering RH > as well as keeping pest under control. > Best wishes, > > David Cottier-Angeli > Associated Member of the Swiss Chamber of Technical and Scientific Forensic > Experts > CottierMetal > Genève > Tel. +4122 300 1955 > Mob. +4179 319 319 0 > > Le 2 oct. 2013 à 22:04, "Anderson, Gretchen" <anders...@carnegiemnh.org> a > écrit : > >> This is a message from the Museumpests List. >> To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net >> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> It certainly looks like the larval form of R. vespulae . Do you use >> cornmeal in preparing your skins? This is an attractant for grain beetles >> as well. At my former museum we were able to significantly reduce our >> infestations by eliminating the use of corn meal. I believe our preparatory >> used borax instead – but would have to check on that detail. >> >> >> Nice photo by the way. >> >> Gretchen Anderson >> >> Conservator >> >> Carnegie Museum of Natural History >> >> 5800 Baum Blvd >> >> Pittsburgh, PA 15202 >> >> Phone (412)665-2607 >> >> anders...@carnegiemnh.org >> >> http://www.carnegiemnh.org >> >> >> From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of >> Tamar Danufsky >> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:57 PM >> To: pestlist@museumpests.net >> Subject: [pestlist] pest id >> >> >> >> This is a message from the Museumpests List. >> To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net >> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Greetings, >> >> A few years ago I had an infestation of Reesa vespulae in my cornmeal (all >> adults). Today I found this (live) larva in the bird skin teaching >> collection. >> >> http://www.humboldt.edu/wildmuseum/larva.html >> >> Is this also a Reesa? >> >> Many thanks! >> >> Tamar >> >> >> >> ****************************************************** >> Tamar Danufsky >> Museum Curator and >> Marine Wildlife Care Center Coordinator >> Department of Wildlife >> Humboldt State University >> Arcata, CA 95521 >> phone (707)826-4034 >> fax (707)826-4060 >> www.humboldt.edu/wildmuseum >> www.humboldt.edu/mwcc >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net >> >> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net 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 imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: >> >> set mode digest pestlist >> >> Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com >> >> >> The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended >> only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain >> confidential and/or privileged material. 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