<div dir="ltr">As you have noted, dermestid beetle colonies should never be anywhere near museum collections (typically they are kept in a separate building or on the roof top of the museum) but with limited space and funding, good museum practice is often difficult to achieve. One method of containment that I saw in practice at the American Museum of Natural History was to have trenches full of "tanglefoot" surrounding the room in which the colonies are maintained. You may want to contact them for further details. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:17 AM, David Dyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DDyer@ohiohistory.org" target="_blank">DDyer@ohiohistory.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Greetings,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am planning to start a dermestid colony for skeletal preparation. In my last position I operated a large and active colony that was isolated in a separate room and down the hall from the collections storage. However at this museum it looks like the only option will be in the lab and office space that is directly next to the collections storage. Has anyone come up with a safe way to operate a colony to minimize escapees and potential harm to the collections? We had a pretty strict protocol for the dermestid colony in my last job and had very few, if any, problems in many years of operation. However, I need a fool-proof system to also keep our history and archaeology curators from being too worried about their nearby collections! Has anyone set up a similar colony? Any ideas are appreciated!<u></u><u></u></p>
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