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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hi Tonya,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I recommend checking out information about this on <a href="https://museumpests.net/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk821997" previewremoved="true">https://museumpests.net/</a></p>
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Blunder traps are never a bad place to start. If you have a clean space and good cabinets this may be enough. Pheromone traps can help with monitoring, but because they are pest specific if you don't know what you actually have you can miss a problem. If you
use pheromones I would recommend using them with blunder traps.
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<div>If you do use pheromone traps, be sure they are about 20 feet from any windows or outer doors, this should minimize attracting anything in. (I think we have more about that on the Museum Pests site.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Lastly, the pestlist can be a great resource for IPM questions and pest identifications.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Best,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Genevieve</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:31 PM<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">First just thank you to all of you for being so generous with your time – I always find answers to my questions here and I really appreciate it.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Today I’m writing because I’m interested to hear about people’s ideas about using pheromone traps for IPM in skin collections. We currently don’t actively monitor for pests in our skin vaults (birds and mammals) with sticky traps, and
I would like to start doing so. However, I’m not clear on whether it would be best to use blunder sticky traps (no pheromones), or pheromone-specific traps (I’m thinking for dermestids & anobiids beetles, and clothes moths). Should I worry that I might actually
attract pests into the collections if I place pheromone traps there? Thoughts would be appreciated.</p>
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