[NHCOLL-L:2827] Re: Vapona Stips for Entomology Collections

[Vr.R.E.M.J..-B. BEJSAK-COLLOREDO-MANSFELD]

main problem with mothballs is that naphthalene and naphthalene is just
repellent and do not kill pests.
Sometime happen that some pest born in naphthalene environment will use to
it .. and after you will get nasty surprise.

Keep care and be of good cheer

Regards

(name) Vratislav Richard Eugene Maria John Baptist
(surname) of Bejsak (Bayshark)-Colloredo-Mansfeld

Tenebrionidae of the World, incl. Alleculinae and Lagriinae,
higher taxonomy, Australian beetles.
websites:
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http://www.egroups.com/group/coleoptera

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Vincent" <vincenma at muohio.edu>
To: <JMacKnight at CINCYMUSEUM.ORG>; "NHCOLL-L" <nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:25 AM
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:2826] Re: Vapona Stips for Entomology Collections


> We stopped using Vapona strips about 15 years ago because we were
concerned
> about safety, and because beetles became resistant.  We are now using
> mothballs.  I don't know about safety issues with those.
>
> M.A. Vincent
>
>
> Dr. Michael A. Vincent, Curator
> W.S. Turrell Herbarium (MU)
> Department of Botany
> Miami University
> Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
> TEL: 513-529-2755
> FAX: 513-529-4243
> Email: VincenMA at MUOhio.edu
> My web page: http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/bot/mike.html
> Herbarium web page: http://www.units.muohio.edu/herbarium/
> Botany Department: http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/
>