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Thanks Leon,
Good suggestions. In my experience, I have quite often found frass piles on my
sticky traps without the associated pest being trapped. Not sure how they get
away, but they manage...
Dee
Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA
Conservator,
The New Brunswick Museum
277 Douglas Avenue
Saint John, New Brunswick
Canada
E2K 1E5
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From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Leon Zak
Sent: August 8, 2011 10:48 AM
To: pestlist@museumpests.net
Subject: RE: [pestlist] FW: Zak's software
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Hello Dee-
I would create a new pest called mouse droppings, the risk would be
Indicator. If you don't have mouse traps set it could easily happen that
you have mice without actually seeing one. I would also track mouse damage
although there's bound to be droppings around any damage.
There is a Notes field with each observation so in the case of damage there
would be some merit to tracking it and describing it in the notes field.
Then you've got a tracking of the damage history.
We do have a search in the works that will let you pull all records that
have a particular word or phrase in the notes field. We are expanding the
export that is currently by start and end date to include filtering by other
fields.
As far as the tracking a reduction to frass of a pest I'll leave that to
those more knowledgeable. I would think that anything feeding off of a
trapped pest would itself be caught.
leon ...
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Stubbs-Lee
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 3:56 PM
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Thanks, Zak. These all sound like great improvements! I tried Zak's a few
years ago but didn't stick with it. I'm looking forward to trying it again
soon. One dilemma I've not found a great solution to in any tracking method
(and I'm hoping someone may have a suggestion) is how to track things of
note when there is no actual body count available on the sticky traps --
perhaps mouse droppings, or a previously trapped insect subsequently being
reduced to a frass pile by some other insect the next month. Any thoughts?
Dee
Dee Stubbs-Lee, CAPC, MA
Conservator,
The New Brunswick Museum
277 Douglas Avenue
Saint John, New Brunswick
Canada
E2K 1E5
telephone: (506) 643-2341
fax: (506) 643-2360
e-mail: dee.stubbs-...@nbm-mnb.ca
www.nbm-mnb.ca
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From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Leon
Zak
Sent: August 5, 2011 4:38 PM
To: pestlist@museumpests.net
Subject: RE: [pestlist] FW: Zak's software
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Hello -
One of the advantages of this type of list and having the person that
designs and writes the software is a part of the list and it provides a
direct line of communication not normally available with software products.
I appreciate the comments about my products and do pay attention to them.
The current suggestions we've been working on were the ability to do a
backup of your data to your location and the need to get an Excel accessible
export. We now have answers for both. Under the utilities section there is
now a one click, all inclusive backup. This is a backup that we can restore
your site from. It is not readily human readable, it is made for our restore
system to read. This is meant for catastrophic situations - someone
mistakenly goes through and deletes a large amount of data for example. We
still backup the whole site each night for our purposes.
For the Excel export we've added a link on the Reports page to an Export
page. There are two options on this page. The first will let you define a
start and end observation date (defaulting to your first and last
observations entered) and then you can download the information in a CSV
file format that can easily be imported into Excel. Once in Excel it can be
sorted, graphed, printed and more.
The second option is a complete download of all of your images -
