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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