[Nhcoll-l] IPM pest identification guides

[Peter Rauch]

Focus.

What are the susceptible accessions of your museum?

How are they stored ?

What are the known pests of such accessions stored in that manner?

Then determine what standard practices other collections use to mitigate
pest damage under condition similar to yours.

Then tailor your monitoring program for those types of potential
specimen-damaging pests.

Balance funds expended against prospects for failing to prevent losses in a
timely and minimal manner.

(I notice that your museum is mostly/(all?) fossils/rocky stuff. How might
such stuff be damaged by "pests"?)

Peter



On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Liz Freedman Fowler <eafreedman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are implementing an Integrated Pest Management program at the Badlands
> Dinosaur Museum in Dickinson, North Dakota. We have had the triangle glue
> traps set out, and now it is time to identify the results.
>
> What resources do you use to learn how to identify museum bugs? Are there
> online resources, or do you prefer a book? Are people mostly self-taught at
> museum bug identification?
>
> Our traps seem to be catching mostly pillbugs, spiders, and crickets, but
> there are plenty of other taxa as well. Should I focus mainly on nailing
> down species identifications for just the "bad bugs" than can be harmful to
> museum objects, or should I try to get precise identifications on
> everything?
>
> Thank you for the advice!
> -Liz Freedman Fowler
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Dr. Liz Freedman Fowler
> Assistant Professor of Biology
> Dickinson State University
> Dickinson, North Dakota
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