The MuseumPests Steering Committee has been pleased to see the recent news articles about IPM activities generating so many vigorous exchanges on the PestList! We will be happy to post the English version (as well as the French if allowed) of Killian's paper on MuseumPests.net. One thing that these threads have begun to highlight is the need to distinguish between some of the solutions used in North America versus Europe and elsewhere worldwide due to availability of products and government regulations. This is something our group will certainly consider when we meet in March.
I would encourage anyone interested in sharing their experiences to sign up to present at our first MuseumPests Public Presentation session on March 11, 2021. I will paste in the announcement below but I want to emphasize that these are short, casual presentations rather than full length conference papers. We hope to hear more about both successes and failures during our session. Every year, the MuseumPests Working Group (MPWG) has included short presentations to update members on new developments, active research, and areas of topical concern. This year, in our first ever virtual meeting, we are inviting short presentations of no more than 10 minutes via Zoom webinar. These presentations are meant to be short, informative, and informal. Please submit abstracts via Google Forms <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEbZqZtFf5b9w9IasP5IMyP10M98MiOH398uD0zz5gL9HTcw/viewform?usp=sf_link> by *March 1, 2021*. The form will ask for the following information: ● A short description of your presentation (no more than 250 words) ● Author(s) names and contact information ● Agreement that presented content will be recorded and a pdf of your content may be posted on museumpests.net website. We will acknowledge and send out acceptances by March 5. For more information or questions, please contact MPWG Co-Chairs Matt Mickletz and Rachael Arenstein at ch...@museumpests.net with “*MPWG 2021 Presentations*” in the subject line. On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 5:38 PM Breitung, Eric <eric.breit...@metmuseum.org> wrote: > I wonder if it’s something we could put a link to and host on the > museumpests website? > > Killian, if that’s of interest, please let me know, and I can look into it > as a possibility. > > > > > > -- > > Eric Breitung > Research Scientist > Department of Scientific Research > 212 396 5390 > > * The Metropolitan Museum of Art* > 1000 Fifth Avenue > New York, NY 10028 > @metmuseum <https://www.instagram.com/metmuseum> > metmuseum.org <http://www.metmuseum.org/> > > > > > > > > *From:* 'Jessie Gray' via MuseumPests <pestlist@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:36 PM > *To:* pestlist@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [External] - RE: [PestList] Trichogramma Wasps > > > > Hi Kilian, > > > > It would it be great to get a copy of the English version of your paper if > that is possible? > > > > Best wishes, > > Jessica Gray > Conservation Laboratory Technical Officer > Strategic Collections > *(She/Her)* > > MAAS acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the Traditional > Owners and Custodians of the land and gives respect to the Elders – past > and present – and through them to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander > peoples. > > > > Jessie Gray > Conservation Laboratory Technical Officer > Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences > 500 Harris Street, Ultimo, Sydney, NSW 2007 Australia > > MAAS acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the Traditional > Owners and Custodians of the land and gives respect to the Elders – past > and present – and through them to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander > peoples. > > > > *From: *Stephan Biebl <i...@holzwurmfluesterer.de> > *Sent: *Thursday, 18 February 2021 11:54 PM > *To: *pestlist@googlegroups.com > *Subject: *AW: [PestList] Trichogramma Wasps > > > > Kilian, > > > > 2013 I was also at the IPM conference and heard your talk about the costly > failure in your museum with an ethnographic collection. And I know the > concerned contractor in Switzerland, who are specialized in alternative > pest control for stored products and other urban pests. The managing > director from this pest control company was also at the conference in > Vienna and he told me about the observed problems with biocide > contamination and dying Trichogramma waps around the applied wasps cards. > Maybe this was not the right place and time, for testing the biological > method inside a contaminated collection. > > > > After more than 13 years practical experience with many successfully > *Trichogramma > *applications and less similar failures in collections with chemical > contamination, I will agree with you, that you always have to think twice, > to use living organisms inside high risk collections. But this means for me > “Integrated Pest Management”, to consider every time the best method for > the protection of our cultural collections. Retrospectively seen, we learn > many from bad experiences and should talk about it, to make it better. From > your view as conservator, I agree totally, that no damages or alterations > on materials are wanted. > > And I have seen some museums storages with chemical contaminated textiles > *and* a strong active WCM infestation. So I think a tiny little > Trichogramma wasp with 0,3 mm is dying faster by contact with DDT or > permethrin than a 3-4mm big larva from clothes moth or dermestid beetles. > > > > The release of parasitoides as natural antagonists for protection of > cultural heritage is “one” part of the European Integrated Pest Management > Standard DIN EN 16790 > <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beuth.de%2Fde%2Fnorm%2Fdin-en-16790%2F247231313&data=04%7C01%7Cjessie.gray%40maas.museum%7C5df08e70d6ad4bd7546608d8d40c4c20%7Cf79de197ce3a4a85b26770dc8885a2c8%7C1%7C0%7C637492496590815066%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=nhG38DWejY2aYX5yS3jXBAEqMb17RI1EEj37H5uveGM%3D&reserved=0>, > Annex E Treatments, since 2016-12. > > > > Best regards > > Stephan Biebl > > > > Consultant Expert for IPM > > Germany > > www.museumsschaedlinge.de > <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.museumsschaedlinge.de%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cjessie.gray%40maas.museum%7C5df08e70d6ad4bd7546608d8d40c4c20%7Cf79de197ce3a4a85b26770dc8885a2c8%7C1%7C0%7C637492496590825020%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=zW9RhvaO65jheILmZGUxXJ00clM4eX5vZr6%2FAVy%2FQdY%3D&reserved=0> > > > > > > > > > *Von:* pestlist@googlegroups.com <pestlist@googlegroups.com> *Im Auftrag > von *kilian.anheu...@ville-ge.ch > *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2021 09:42 > *An:* pestlist@googlegroups.com > *Betreff:* Re: [PestList] Trichogramma Wasps > > > > Hello, > > We had a large scale trial with Trichogramma evanescens wasps against a > Tineola bisselliella infestation in our reserves in 2009-10 which was a > costly failure. Not only were the wasps inefficient because of their very > limited range of action (they are tiny and do not fly) but we were also > left with the cleaning issue afterwards.This was not a small matter because > the specialized contractor applied them directly on to our collections of > fur and feathers among other things. They are biologists, not conservators, > and the necessary cleaning was just not something that they had thought of > or had to deal with. Imagine the wasps as a grey dust, very time consuming > if not impossible to remove from delicate textiles, fur, feathers etc. The > dead wasps (we deployed a total of more than 3 million wasps in two years) > do not magically disappear, they are still there on all delicate objects in > our African collection. Think twice if this is really what you want to do > to your collection. > It was suggested to us afterwards that the inefficiency of the wasps > against the moths may have been due to a low level presence of insecticides > (not enough to keep the moths at bay, though). Like in most other > ethnographic and natural history collections, my predecessors in our > institution used various chemicals to protect the objects. When I started > here 10 years ago I found an empty bottle of DDT solution on a storage > shelf. This may or may not have had an effect on the wasps but you may want > to keep it in mind if your objects have also been treated at some point in > the past. > Our experiences have been published in Studies in Conservation 58 (2013). > Even though the paper is in French there are images which speak for > themselves and I have also got an unpublished english version available on > request. > > Best regards, > > Kilian Anheuser > Curator for preventive conservation > MEG - Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Switzerland > > J. 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