[Nhcoll-l] Thanks for all the pest control help!

[Bryant, James]

Oh, boy. Since it's roaches from an Entomology source, I suggest contacting Mike Rust at UC Riverside (see his web page at http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=226 ). He raises quite a few species of roaches in his lab here, and has developed a number of innovative, less-toxic ways to control them.

Best of luck, Brian.

James

James M. Bryant

Curator of Natural History

Museum Department, City of Riverside

3580 Mission Inn Avenue

Riverside, CA 92501

(951) 826-5273

(951) 369-4970 FAX

jbryant at riversideca.gov


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From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Sidlauskas
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:44 PM
To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Thanks for all the pest control help!

Hi Everyone,

Thanks so much for the help with our cockroach issue here in Nash Hall 
at Oregon State University.   Here's a little more info in response to 
the various inquiries and messages.

The roaches are apparently of a species not native to this area; they escaped from a entomology lab a few buildings over and are apparently doing well in Nash Hall.  We've seen just a few of them in the fluid collection area (none so far in the dry) and I haven't yet noticed any damage to labels or specimens, but the university is trying to halt the spread of the little beasts and is perhaps being a bit overzealous in control methods.  The building manager for Nash Hall really wants spraying to happen and appears to be acting on a higher level directive to try to prevent these roaches from invading other buildings on campus.  However, I will chat with her about possibly trying some of the other solutions (baits, traps and/or borax) before spraying in the fluid collection itself.

The collection room itself is new construction, temperature controlled and not particularly humid.  I'd guess that the point source is something pretty far afield from the collection itself. Aside from the vertebrate collections, Nash Hall houses many offices and labs as well as student lounges and such.  There's definitely food in the building (though none in the collection), and I'd imagine the roaches inhabit places beyond the fishcave over which I have direct dominion.

The idea to look for sources of glue in the collection rooms is a good one, and I'll look into that.

Thanks everyone!

-- Brian

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Brian Sidlauskas
Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
104 Nash Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3803
  
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