On 1/23 Patricia Reynolds wrote:

>This is going to be rather un-technical, as I cant remember what they are
called.  We took one of the big, >blue lights (the kind of lights you see in
delis and butchers) out of the stores, where they attract and fry >flies, and
into the staff-room, where the wasps were. This makes a most horrible noise for
a minute or >so as the wasp is electricuted.

This type of treatment doesn't address the root of the problem and is just what
I was talking about in my rather angry posting of this past weekend. Great,
you've killed a wasp but you've failed to address how they are entering the
facility to begin with. You have also failed to deal with the "fall out" of the
zapper. What is happening to all those lovely carcasses? Are they providing food
for other insects? Insects that are also going to eat collections? What are the
wasps eating? What type of wasp? If the wasps are entering your facility what
else can get in? The control of dangers to our collections and our facilities
and our buildings is holistic. The only way to erracidate problems is to ask
basic questions regarding the nature of these problems and treat the cause of
the problem, not the symptom.

Gutenkauf
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