RE: [External] - [PestList] Anoxic Treatment Protocols

50%". The RH rise has me thinking about trying 40-45% gel for future treatments to try and keep it further away from flirting with the dreaded "60% line". Thanks- Todd On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:46 PM Breitung, Eric mailto:eric.breit...@metmuseum.org>> wrote: Those look mo

RE: [External] - [PestList] Anoxic Treatment Protocols

Those look more like meat sticks than oxygen absorbers. Just kidding…I believe the Mitsubishi absorbers also claim to control humidity in the package. Unclear whether the ULINE product is doing the same, but maintaining humidity is often important for sensitive cultural heritage material stabi

RE: [External] - Re: [PestList] soil exhibit - advice appreciated!

Microwaves can also work. -- Eric Breitung Research Scientist Scientific Research 212 396 5390 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028 @metmuseum metmuseum.org From: 'Ana Carolina Delgado Vieira' via Muse

RE: [External] - RE: [PestList] IPM Policies and Procedures

Can I suggest that those willing to share their policies do so to this group email or directly with Rachael Arenstein indicating that it’s okay to put them on the website as a way to update the information that’s on the site? It’s something that can happen at the next Museum Pest working group

RE: [External] - RE: [PestList] Escal or alternative barrier film

For non-transparent barrier films, I’ve found Cadpak HD100 to be much more robust than Marvelseal. For transparent, Escal has worked quite well, though it’s thin and delicate like Marvelseal. Eric From: pestlist@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Cheri Schneider Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 9:4

RE: [External] - SV: [PestList] Oddy Tested double sided adhesive tape

Consider looking at what’s on the market or. There are low-tack adhesives out there. The Met’s tries to list the adhesion to steel on the AIC’s Oddy Testing Wiki (online) for tests we’ve published there. I wonder if some of the ‘transfer tapes’ would be low tack enough to be removable but also

RE: [External] - RE: [PestList] Dried flowers a potential insect issue?

Tom Parker -Original Message- From: Breitung, Eric mailto:eric.breit...@metmuseum.org>> To: 'pestlist@googlegroups.com' mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com>> Sent: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 1:32 pm Subject: [PestList] Dried flowers a potential insect issue? Hello Pest-listers –

[PestList] Dried flowers a potential insect issue?

Hello Pest-listers - My Design department is interested in using bundles of dried/preserved flowers in an upcoming exhibition. Does anyone know or have experience with these being food or attractants for pests? They're obviously potential harborage, but I'm less concerned about that. https:/

RE: [External] - RE: [PestList] Trichogramma Wasps

I wonder if it’s something we could put a link to and host on the museumpests website? Killian, if that’s of interest, please let me know, and I can look into it as a possibility. -- Eric Breitung Research Scientist Department of Scientific Research 212 396 5390 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

RE: [External] - Re: [PestList] Re: Anoxic treatment

If you are interested in having your sensor(s) validated using NIST gases, etc., I can likely do this as private work for a fairly nominal fee. Feel free to reach out to me at Breitung1 at yahoo dot com If this is something you might be interested in, let me now, and I can come up with a pro

RE: [External] - [PestList] Re: Anoxic treatment

Regarding the Anoxibug and other sensors that were tested by me and Gabrielle at the Met, please note that we only tested what we had on hand. 1 or 2 of each type of sensor. The article should not be read as a condemnation of those sensors, rather, it is a *major caution* to all of us that we

RE: [External] - Re: [PestList] Pest ID assist, please

Eric, my guess is springtails? Angelica Sent from my Samsung Galaxy A30S on Movistar On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, 12:42 Breitung, Eric, mailto:eric.breit...@metmuseum.org>> wrote: Anyone know what these little guys are? Found living in piles of dust/fibers. Open #1 first! -- Eric Breitung Re

RE: [External] - Re: [PestList] Creepy crawlies in the lab

I’ve also seen them come from large potted plants in droves. From: pestlist@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Pollack, Richard J Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 11:17 AM To: pestlist@googlegroups.com Subject: [External] - Re: [PestList] Creepy crawlies in the lab Millipedes. This suggests they’re craw

Re: [External] - [pestlist] Natural Honey Bee Hive Split

to set up a secondary hive. Joel Voron Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Conservation Dept. Integrated Pest Management Office 757-220-7080 Cell 757-634-1175 E-Mail jvo...@cwf.org<mailto:jvo...@cwf.org> [X] On Apr 12, 2020, at 12:36 PM,

[pestlist] Anoxibug sensor test

Regarding the Anoxibug, I have a new sensor and a couple that range in age from about 6-12 months old (stored oxygen free) that will be tested against calibrated Systech Illinois systems sensors at a range of calibrations (0.2, 0.1, and 0.01% O2) on the 28th of October. If you have sensors (ano

RE: [External] - RE: [pestlist] Freeze once or freeze twice?

Mr Doyle – Would you be willing to be more specific about the sealed box you’re using? Dimensions, materials, weight of material inside, etc. We’re just installing a freezer at the Met and would like to set up a similar setup both to test its capabilities and insure effective treatments. Thank

RE: [External] - [pestlist] Concerns of Using Pheromone Traps

I’m guessing that ‘volatile fat soluble’ should be ‘volatile and fat soluble’, so volatile enough to make it from the trap to the object and soluble enough in the artist’s material such that it becomes more likely to stay on the art than to return to the gas phase, leaving the object. From: pes

Re: [External] - RE: [pestlist] Serious concern with biscuit beetles - Please help!

To solve the short term issue if escaping adults, you could go through the effort of hermetically sealing the objects in marvelseal or other heat sealable bags- even large ziplock style bags to avoid any chance of escaping. Eric >From phone On Dec 6, 2018, at 11:14 AM, Anderson, Gretchen mail

RE: [External] - [pestlist] RE: Moths on DISTEMPER painting. Inquiry.

18 3:38 PM To: pestlist@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [External] - [pestlist] RE: Moths on tempera painting. Inquiry. Unless you know what kind of moth, every comment is conjecture. Tom Parker -Original Message----- From: Breitung, Eric mailto:eric.breit...@metmuseum.org>&

Re: [External] - [pestlist] RE: Moths on tempera painting. Inquiry.

iginal Message- From: pestlist@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com> [mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Breitung, Eric Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 2:07 PM To: pestlist@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com> Subject: [pestlist] Moths on temper

[pestlist] Moths on tempera painting. Inquiry.

Does anyone have experience with clothes moths being interested in tempera paint? We have a canvas tempera painting that’s attracted a few clothes moths. They’ve died in the folds of the canvas, where many years of dust has settled. I’m trying to understand what might have attracted them to th

[pestlist] Heat treating and/or the Thermo Lignum process

Does anyone on the list have experience using heat treatments for pest eradication on or near art? Have you controlled the humidity during the process? Have you used the Thermo Lignum system? I work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and we are considering our options for the design of a free

RE: [External] - Re: [pestlist] Pest ID help

. Cheers, Katharine McCoy On Sep 4, 2018, at 9:23 PM, Breitung, Eric mailto:eric.breit...@metmuseum.org>> wrote: Any thoughts on what this might be? Looks a bit like a dark bark beetle, but I’m finding it on/in modern plywood that’s been used as a paint ‘panel’. Please let me know if yo