Hi Anna, I’ve had good results treating bird mounts with the Hanwell Anoxibug setup from Insects Limited:
https://www.insectslimited.com/store/anoxic-storage-solutions If you skip the oxygen indicator, you’ll know you had an air-tight cube if the oxygen scavengers heat up again when you cut the cube open at the end of the treatment. Or you could use a sacrificial assay. The Insects Limited crew is very helpful. You may want to double check with them about using an adequate amount of silica or clay humidity stabilizers. Of course, if you put the birds back in the leaky case, it seems likely they might get reinfested. Good luck, Mike Mike Quigley (he/him) Assistant Curator Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Bowdoin College 9500 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 United States 207-725-3305 mquig...@bowdoin.edu<mailto:mquig...@bowdoin.edu> bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum<https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/> From: 'Thomas Parker' via MuseumPests <pestlist@googlegroups.com> Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 9:39 PM To: pestlist@googlegroups.com <pestlist@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [PestList] Clothing Moths and Vapona I would purchase new vapona strips. Old ones tend to “sweat” liquid vapona inside theor foil package and lose their effectiveness. Tom Parker On Feb 29, 2024, at 9:09 PM, Anna E Goldman <anna.gold...@humboldt.edu> wrote: Hello all, I have just discovered a moth infestation in one of our bird taxidermy cases (15+ moth carcasses and a few specimens with frass at the base). The case it's in, is not air tight and not up to any museum standard. It is also (as an added bonus), a study room for students of the university. We do not have a freezer that gets cold enough for anything shorter than 5 weeks for decontaminating. I do have old vapona strips. I would obviously block access to the room for at least one week after the end of fumigation- but my question is- Do any of you have an opinion/ experience with long term effects of vapona on specimens? I have been told it can "activate" fats and damage mounted taxidermy, but I can't seem to find any source data. Ideally, I would leave the specimens in the case and fumigate. Thank you! Anna -- Anna E. Goldman, PhD (she/ her) Wildlife Museum Curator Marine Wildlife Care Coordinator Department of Wildlife California Polytechnic University Arcata, California 95521 USA (707) 826-4034 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CADkLfmWu5yu%2BKvF%2BQCqgj7%3DmzXuSus8WOhcPQ%3Dp0a7zy4h1nLQ%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CADkLfmWu5yu%2BKvF%2BQCqgj7%3DmzXuSus8WOhcPQ%3Dp0a7zy4h1nLQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/07D001CC-A549-4337-AED3-E062F374DA36%40aol.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/07D001CC-A549-4337-AED3-E062F374DA36%40aol.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CH0P223MB0137175FE6DB473346D3DC9AC15E2%40CH0P223MB0137.NAMP223.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
