Question #1 what type of traps?
Joel Voron Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Conservation Dept.
Integrated Pest Management Specialist
Office 757-220-7080
Cell 757-634-1175
E-Mail jvo...@cwf.org
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Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 1:00 PM
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Subject: [PestList] Crushed dreams of a world free of MWD*s
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It seemed too good to be true. It's warming up, the humidity is way up: moth
prime time here in New England. Yet not a sign of moths in the most valuable
wool storage area in the building, clean traps high and low. Our isolation
efforts must finally be paying off!
I was actually excited, could I for once focus on actual repairs instead of
mitigation? A quarterly airing-out without caution tape and quarantine zones?
But wait, what's this suspicious lint drifting to the floor? That's odd...
hang on...
<insert jarring horror movie music here>
SOOOO, how's everyone else's day going? Mine is going... actually, it's not
going at all, mine has just screeched to a halt.
Put bluntly, I'm not a happy camper in more ways than one. Not sure if I want
to scream, tear my hair out, burn the place down, or hide in the janitor's
closet with a bucket on my head.
I suspect I've just learned a valuable lesson -don't trust the traps - the hard
way, and I'm hoping the damage is limited to my crushed spirit and already
overburdened workload, and that the collateral damage to textiles is limited in
extent.
But now that my faith in the universe of IPM as I know it has been shattered,
I've got questions:
Question 1: What went wrong here? What could be the reason behind multiple
empty traps adjacent to obviously active infestations? Fresh, opened just over
a month ago, placed both high and low, minimal light, practically zero air
flow, and one was literally a handspan away from the red item pictured.
Question 2: What would you have done/do to avoid it happening again? Where do
you draw the line when it comes to "trust but verify" and indicator traps? How
often does this sort of thing happen?
Question 3: How long has it been going on? At what point should we have caught
this / was it just the traps that missed it? What size does a population have
to reach before traps will reliably indicate? What's the worse case (for us)
scenario/time-frame for reaching that point, under ideal (for them) conditions?
Apologies for the slew of questions; while I'd like to claim it's out of a
pursuit of understanding and a dedication to conservation, I will admit the
length of this email is directly related to just how much I don't want to go
deal with this. (Again.)
Your time and any knowledge or wisdom you care to share will be greatly
appreciated!
Best Regards,
JC Reardon
*MWDs = Moths of Wool Destruction.
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