Julie, Full disclosure: I have no field experience. However, I develop training events and training materials based on what those with experience tell me.
With that background, here’s something that the most-experienced pest inspectors all say: however you number them, mapping your trap placements is an essential step. That way, when you record your results, you know not only what was in trap 17 in Room X, but exactly where in Room 17 it was caught. Combined with results from other traps in the room (and those along common walls, ducts, electric outlets in neighboring rooms), that will help you pinpoint where the problem areas are. You can them modify your trap placements (and your maps) to focus on hot spots, and thus spend less time checking empty traps and more time finding solutions to the whatever problem might arise. --Dan Dan Wixted Pesticide Management Education Program (PMEP) Cornell University Ph (607) 255-7525 204 Rice Hall FAX (607) 255-3075 Ithaca, NY 14853 psep.cce.cornell.edu<http://psep.cce.cornell.edu/> dj...@cornell.edu<mailto:dj...@cornell.edu> From: pestlist@googlegroups.com <pestlist@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of jmcin...@famsf.org Sent: Monday, September 24, 2018 3:42 PM To: Museumpests <pestlist@googlegroups.com> Subject: [pestlist] Successful Blunder Trap Naming/Numbering Conventions? Hello Everyone, I'm currently in the process of unifying all of the previously isolated trapping areas in the museum for improved integration. Does anyone have opinions about the best way to number and identify individual traps? My plan is to label them as such: Month/Year placed Room or Gallery Number - Trap # That seems straight forward, and more or less what we've been doing, but there are many rooms and some rooms have 20+ traps - some on the ground and some up on cabinets. Does it help to break large rooms up into something like A,B,C areas then the trap #? I want to do things right the first time around, so I'm trying to think ahead to all the information that might be helpful to have on a label and then in the logging worksheets. I'd love to hear/see examples of how everyone labels their traps and learn what works and what doesn't. Regards! Julie Collections Care Assistant Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco -- 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 post to this group, send email to pestlist@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/ed5e00bd-b82b-4b80-bd24-0074ee4ef662%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/ed5e00bd-b82b-4b80-bd24-0074ee4ef662%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to pestlist@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/SN6PR04MB3808E6A8F6A77DD030240CFFAF170%40SN6PR04MB3808.namprd04.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
