There is no simple, succinct answer to this question. How often the pest
control company visits should depend entirely on what pests you are finding.
If the traps are properly distributed (e.g., near cracks, crevices, and
windows; along walls, under furniture, near "dirty" areas and near areas
where food is stored or consumed), how often they are checked would depend
on how often pests turn up in them. If you are finding pests every week,
other IPM measures need to be taken and the traps checked weekly. If the
traps rarely have anything in them, monthly checks may be adequate. If the
traps turn up empty, you can always have the staff check them and call in
the pest control company only when you find things in the traps that need to
be identified--however, proper trap placement is critical.
We purchase traps in the configuration you are describing from Bell
Laboratories, Inc., Madison, WI 53704.
--John
John E. Simmons
Collection Manager, Natural History Museum
and
Coordinator, Museum Studies Program
University of Kansas
Dyche Hall
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7561
Telephone 785-864-4508
FAX 785-864-5335
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www.ku.edu/~museumst/
-----Original Message-----
From: Kirsten Hammerstrom [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:51 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Pest Control Frequency
Dear Colleagues:
I have searched the Museum-L and CoOL archives and cannot find a
handy-dandy, succinct answer to the questions our museum and building
maintenance staff are currently debating. I hope you can help. We have a
pest control service (integrated pest management) that comes every month to
check sticky/bait traps in our 3 buildings (one library, one historic house
museum and one historic house of admin. offices).
What we'd like to know is:
1. How often should the "bug guy" come?
2. How often should the museum staff formally check for pests?
3. If you cut back on pest control company visits, have you ever had a
problem?
4. If you have the white sticky traps that look like tents (they fold up
into a triangular profile, have a sticky trap in the base, and a place to
write the date and location on the side), where do you get them?
I'm tracking literature (I found bibliographies) but real-life stories often
help make a case.
Thanks very much for any and all help you can give me,
Kirsten Hammerstrom
Rhode Island Historical Society
110 Benevolent Street
Providence RI 02906
(401) 331-8575 x 124
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