[NHCOLL-L:51] Re: vapona

[Jessica Johnson]

     Another alternative is freezing - it is now commonly used by 
     conservators to kill pests found in museum objects.  Conservators in 
     the anthropology department of your museum can probably give you 
     advice.
     
     There is a lot of published information about the technical aspects of 
     non-toxic alternatives to pesticides.  One place on the web that 
     information on this and other aspects of pest management (including 
     the problems with Vapona) are the NPS Conserve O Grams at 
     <http://www.cr.nps.gov/csd/publications/index.htm>.  
     
     You can also go to Conservation OnLine 
     <http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/index.shtml> - it has a section of 
     pest management pages, and if you do a search in the listserv archives 
     for the Conservation DistList - available through this page you'll 
     find lots of discussion that's gone on there over quite a few years.
     
     Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections has a 
     leaflet on anoxia at <http://www.spnhc.org/>.
     
     Good luck,
     Jessie Johnson
     Conservator
     Museum Management Program, NPS


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Subject: [NHCOLL-L:49] vapona
Author:  "Bill Alther" <BAlther at DMNH.ORG> at NP--INTERNET
Date:    3/25/99 10:56 AM


We currently use vapona (DDVP, also known as Bio-Strip) as one of our steps for 
fumigating specimens when they are removed from the dermestid colony.  We are 
investigating alternatives to vapona.  Is there a chemical or method less 
hazardous but still effective?  We have also used vapona in the past as a way to
fumigate individual cabinets when insect activity was suspected.  What are some 
alternatives for that?  What is used in other collections for these activities? 
I know about anoxia but am not fully informed about the effectiveness, 
feasability, and convenience of that method.  
     
Bill Alther
Zoology Collections Manager
Denver Museum of Natural History
     
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