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There is no hard and fast rule on setting thresholds. There are simply to many variables - the location of the museum, surrounding environments, the age of the building, the type of collection (some are more susceptible than others). The point of an IPM program is to reduce the level of risk to your collection through best practices. You need to find out what kind of pests you have in the building so that you can strategically strike at the problem (or pest). The threshold will depend on your situation. The cost will depend on your situation. You are correct, insects (and other) pests will get in the building. You monitor to determine if the insects are a direct or an indirect threat to your collection. Yes, you might be catching only ground beetles and other incidentals - but, in that case, you are setting yourself up for the insects that eat dead beetles - and these are the same that will infest wool rugs and wool clothing, hide and fur clothing, taxidermy, scientific specimens...... the list goes on and on. An integrated pest management program (IPM) will help you reduce the risk of having an infestation. An IPM helps you develop strategies to keep your collection free from infestation. I know that does not help with your question - but only you can determine what the threshold is. Ideally we would all like no pests - but since we live in the real world - IPM is the best way to approach the problem. Linda - I agree with Tom. IPM can be very cost effective for small museums. I have worked with many small regional, tribal and small university museums through the IPM class I teach. My students have come up with some very creative and very inexpensive ways to monitor for pests. One of the efficiencies is that if you know who is getting in and where they are coming from, you can often block the holes which will help any efforts to control climate inside the building. Good luck! Gretchen Anderson Conservator Carnegie Museum of Natural History anders...@carnegiemnh.org<mailto:anders...@carnegiemnh.org> Instructor MuseumClasses.org From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Linda Kemp Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:35 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: RE: [pestlist] Threshold levels This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi Amy, I'd be really interested in seeing what responses you get and hopefully I will via Museumpests.net. I'm currently looking at the cost effectiveness of IPM in small museums and how it can be carried out on a very small or non-existent budget, so this information would be very useful. Kind regards Linda Kemp Linda Kemp BSc Conservation Student The Cass. School of Design Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design London Metropolitan University 41 Commercial Road London E1 1LA e-mail: linda.k...@email59.plus.com<mailto:linda.k...@email59.plus.com> From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Miller, Amy (FDA) Sent: 26 February 2013 18:03 To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] Threshold levels This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- I am interested in finding out information about insect threshold levels in museums and collections. Obviously, insects can get into buildings and be found on monitoring devices such as sticky traps, but they do not warrant any type of control. How do you determine control when nothing in particular is infested? Any resources on threshold levels would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Amy K. Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.Net> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net<mailto:pestlist@museumpests.net> and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. 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