<div dir="ltr"><div>Focus. <br></div><div><br></div><div>What are the susceptible accessions of your museum? <br></div><div><br></div><div>How are they stored ? <br></div><div><br></div><div>What are the known pests of such accessions stored in that manner?</div><div><br></div><div>Then determine what standard practices other collections use to mitigate pest damage under condition similar to yours.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Then tailor your monitoring program for those types of potential specimen-damaging pests.</div><div><br></div><div>Balance funds expended against prospects for failing to prevent losses in a timely and minimal manner.</div><div><br></div><div>(I notice that your museum is mostly/(all?) fossils/rocky stuff. How might such stuff be damaged by "pests"?)</div><div><br></div><div>Peter<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Liz Freedman Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eafreedman@gmail.com" target="_blank">eafreedman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>We are implementing an Integrated Pest Management program at the Badlands Dinosaur Museum in Dickinson, North Dakota. We have had the triangle glue traps set out, and now it is time to identify the results.</div><div><br></div><div>What resources do you use to learn how to identify museum bugs? Are there online resources, or do you prefer a book? Are people mostly self-taught at museum bug identification?</div><div><br></div><div>Our traps seem to be catching mostly pillbugs, spiders, and crickets, but there are plenty of other taxa as well. Should I focus mainly on nailing down species identifications for just the "bad bugs" than can be harmful to museum objects, or should I try to get precise identifications on everything?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the advice!</div><div>-Liz Freedman Fowler</div><br class="m_5812063008246597548gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_5812063008246597548gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">------------------------------<wbr>-----------------</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Dr. Liz Freedman Fowler</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Assistant Professor of Biology</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Dickinson State University</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Dickinson, North Dakota</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">------------------------------<wbr>-----------------</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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