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If you have pheromone traps in multiple sites that are successfully trapping 
carpet beetles (which would be males)I would be worried about pulling them 
without educating staff on specific sanitation procedure and setting up 
protocols on targeted vacuuming to break the cycle. You will have males on the 
loose looking to  procreate. The building envelopes should be evaluated as well 
at chronic hot spots. Then I would say it would be safer to scale back 
some......But I would think it unwise to say none ever as they can be quite the 
resource for pin pointing a breach or source. JTV


Joel Voron   Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

  Conservation Dept.

     Integrated Pest Management

      Office 757-220-7080

        Cell 757-634-1175

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Dear Scott,



I must say that the advice from the two conservators giving the course was not 
very precise!! I give a lot of IPM courses in Europe and other places, and 
usually we get this question at every workshop, here is my standard answer:

1. Yes it is possible that we attract animals from outside, but place pheromone 
traps in the center of the room at least 5-10m from windows and doors to 
prevent this. -> easy to prevent

2. Usually sex pheromones for moths and carpet beetles will only attract the 
males and you need a female laying eggs to start an infestation. -> so no big 
problem!

3. If I have the feeling that there is a source of moths outside of the 
building, this is a very important information and I place one trap inside and 
one outside to have a reliable answer to this question. If they really come 
from outside (a bird nest or dead animal can be a source of the infestation) 
your collection inside is at risk to get infested -> get rid of the problem

4. If you use food bait for mice (or some beetles) yes you can attract animals 
from outside so you have to think if the information is useful and important 
for you.

Pheromone traps are a very important tool for the monitoring of many pests and 
I use hundreds for webbing clothes moths in many buildings, they collect a lot 
of important information’s for the IPM!!



All the best from Vienna,



Pascal




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Good morning. I work for the US Army at one of their museums and we use 
pheromone pest control traps, especially for carpet beetles. One of my staff 
was at a US Army museums course two weeks ago and was told by two conservators 
that all pheromone traps must be removed from all Army museums as they lure 
bugs in from outside with the pheromone - like through doors and windows. They 
stated that it attracts more insects in to the buildings and makes it more 
difficult to control pests (we have these pheromone traps as well as ground 
traps near doors and windows to catch anything coming in - no carpet beetles in 
the floor traps but we do get a couple in the pheromone traps). I have never 
heard of this happening before and wanted to check to see anyone has heard of 
this or knew approximately how far one of the pheromone traps "odor" went out 
from the trap. I just can't see that one of these small traps can lure insects 
through doors and walls like the two conservators stated. Any information you 
could provide would be greatly appreciated.



Thank you.



Scott A. Neel, PhD

Director / Curator

Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum

US Army Fires Center of Excellence

372 Gannahl Road

Fort Sill, OK 73503

Office: 580-442-6570

Fax: 580-442-0552

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