Hi Elizabeth, I vary my numbers of traps depending on what is stored in any given room. For example, my rooms containing textiles collections have more traps, more closely spaced, than do my rooms containing lower-risk items like ceramics. If I have something of concern show up one month, I may add a few more traps nearby in order to keep closer tabs on the area for a while. Bear in mind that sticky blunder traps are meant for monitoring what’s living in your space, not for eradicating any problems, so, ideally, the more traps you have out the more accurate your data will be. On the flip side, the more traps you have out, the more time it will take to monitor and record your findings. I work for a mid to large size museum with collections stored and exhibited in 5 separate buildings, but I am a conservation department of one, so I find that monitoring about 50 traps in total on a once monthly rotation is about the best I can manage and takes me about one full day per month between checking the traps and managing my data. You would adjust that to suit your facility, type of collections, frequency and type of pest you are finding, and available staff.
Dee Dee A. Stubbs-Lee, MA, CAPC Conservator / Restauratrice New Brunswick Museum 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick E2K 1E5 Canada (506) 643-2341 From: pestlist@googlegroups.com [mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Marsden Sent: October 25, 2019 1:41 AM To: pestlist@googlegroups.com Subject: [pestlist] How many monitoring traps? HI everyone, I am reviewing our IPM monitoring procedures and I am wondering if there is an optimum number of sticky traps we should be using. What are other people doing? Is there a particular ration, per square metres or something that people use when ordering supplies? Thanks in advance, Liz Elizabeth Marsden Collections & Archives Manager | College of Design & Social Context | RMIT University P +61 3 9925 2689 | M +61 468 618 118 -- 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/SYBPR01MB42011399804E77A850309423B4650%40SYBPR01MB4201.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/SYBPR01MB42011399804E77A850309423B4650%40SYBPR01MB4201.ausprd01.prod.outlook.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/61252826384a4e5cb05468b29ee4dadd%40NBMEX01.NBM.local.
