Help - molding collection in the tropics

[SUNSOL DANIELS]

John, seems like a butterfly garden would take less maintenance!!!! Sally
 John Shuey wrote:I was just at a field station in Belize which has a nice "butterfly display" with data in their classroom (~200 specimens).  But it has two major problems that will ultimately destroy it - so I'm looking for ideas about how to at least prolong its life by several years. It is housed in a less than air-tight display case with a hinged glass lid - it probably has about the same surface area as 5 Cornell drawers. Problem one - psocids are eating it alive - I though I would just send a couple of no-pest strips and that should wipe out the extra insects.. no?  I also though I would send some adhesive weather stripping down, so that maybe they could get a seal in place. Problem two - mold.  Because of the humidity (the station is in a small clearing in premontane rainforest), mold is hitting the collection pretty hard.  Two things come to mind.  I could send some desiccant, but they would have to constantly change and dry it out (this is a really damp place).  And, if could send something that would at least kill the current batch of mold, that would help a lot - but I have no idea what that something might be.   Any ideas or alternate solutions??? Champion of lost causes,John_________________John ShueyDirector of Conservation ScienceIndiana Office of The Nature Conservancy  
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