Dermestids

[Kelly Richers]

Scissors will too cut it.  Get a pair of Fiskars shears, put on work gloves and go to it.  I cut up over 6 into 1x1 strips every year.

>>> "1_iron" <1_iron at msn.com> 01/10/02 01:18AM >>>
Ron:

I take the strips out to the garage to my work bench - with all the doors
open - and cut it into cubes with a roofing knife (the kind with a
razor-sharp disposable blade). I then stick headed pins through the
resulting cubes. Back in the house, it is a simple matter to stick the
vapona in a corner of the boxes.

This takes care of the fumes, but you are right in saying the strips are a
bear to cut. Scissors won't do it. I have tried roofing shears, but it was
awkward.

Jim Taylor


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Gatrelle" <gatrelle at tils-ttr.org>
To: <1_iron at msn.com>; <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Dermestids


> Jim -- How do you handle the vapona?  I have tried to use it a couple of
> times but only found it in the big no-pest strip size which took lots of
> cutting etc and lot of fumes which I did not like breathing.  BioQuip used
> to sell it in paper pouches but I think they quit long ago and I also
found
> them too big.  More info needed.
>
> Ron
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "1_iron" <1_iron at msn.com>
> To: <cbird at heartland.ab.ca>; <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Dermestids
>
>
> > Hi, Charley:
> >
> > You're doing exactly what I do; I change the vapona 2X each year.
> >
> > Jim Taylor
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charles Bird" <cbird at heartland.ab.ca>
> > To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:28 AM
> > Subject: Dermestids
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
>  Though I do not have a current problem, I would like to know what, in
your
> > experience, is the best way to prevent Dermestid beetles from getting
> into
> > a collection and of killing any that may have gotten into a box. My
> > practice has been 3 days in the freezer if I discover a problem, also 3
> > days in the freezer for anyone else's specimens that come my way. I have
> > been using a 1 cm square of vapona in a corner of a specimen box as a
> > deterent. Am I doing the right things? Can any of you recommend other,
or
> > better, methods?
> >
> > Charley
> > Charles Bird, Box 22, Erskine, Alberta, Canada, T0C 1G0
>
>
>
>
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