Louis -- I would appreciate a copy of your publication when it is complete. Will you be at ESA - San Diego?
Forrest E. St. Aubin, BCE Liaison, ESA/NPMA Chair, ESA-ACE Oversight Committee 12835 Pembroke Circle - Leawood, Kansas 66209 Phone: 913.927.9588 - Fax: 913.345.8008 E-mail: forr...@saintaubinbce.com Website: www.saintaubinbce.com "If you only do what you know you can do - you never do very much." Tom Krause Motivational speaker -----Original Message----- From: "Louis Sorkin" [sor...@amnh.org] Date: 10/06/2010 03:38 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: Re: [pestlist] Treatment for bedbugs found in bound materials This is a message from the Pest Management Database List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- In reference to the first post, most recent research states that: 118dF for 20 minutes kills adults and 49 minutes at that temperature for eggs. At 122dF eggs killed almost right away- adults and nymphs obviously also die. Packtite is a heating system that will get up to 140dF or more. It is a portable system basically designed at first for luggage. There is a rigid metal wire shelf base on legs. Heater mounted beneath. Timer plug from 1/2 hour to 8 hours and comes with a temperature probe (you can add as many as you like) to inform you about the temp at a certain location within the material you are heating. Freezing is an option, too, although keeping them at -30dF for a few hours didn't do much and they woke up after thawing. A longer period of a few days will work as will freezing, thawing, freezing. I've worked on one project where thousands of books were argon treated/anoxic treatment. Also in commercial ventures and Vikane (sulfuryl fluoride) was used. Spot heat treating in a box composed of insulation board (8'x8'x4') and also heat treating homes, apartments, etc. I am supposed to be speaking at the upcoming Museumpests.net Integrated Pest Management Working Group, (IPM-WG) and am preparing a page on bed bugs for the museumpests.org site. > Colleagues, > > I am trying to work on a procedure for treating bound paper materials > that have bedbugs. We haven't had any confirmed sightings yet in materials, but considering our State-wide problem I fear it is just a matter of time. I've seen plenty of good information related to facilities, but not a lot related to caring for books that have been affected. The most common quick quip is that they should be "cooked" at temperatures around 140 degrees Fahrenheit for 2 hours. I've not seen any indication what they are being cooked in. There is a device called Packtite that gets some mention on blogs, but not on any > conservation/preservation sites. NEDCC, LOC, and Lyrasis sites don't have anything yet either. From what I've read freezing apparently doesn't kill the egg stage. My concern right now is the general circulating collection, so freezing might be the only option for rare/unique materials.... > > > > Has your institution started tackling this question? Any help would be > appreciated! > > > Holly Prochaska > Head, Preservation Services > University of Cincinnati Libraries > Tele:513-556-1389 > Fax:513-556-0325 > > > -- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E. Entomology Section Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 phone: 212-769-5613 fax: 212-769-5277 email: sor...@amnh.org The New York Entomological Society, Inc. email: n...@amnh.org web: www.nyentsoc.org Online journal from 2001 forward www.BioOne.org ------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestl...@museumpests.com To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
