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Group - The answer from the person in Vienna was excellent. Let me add: Pheromone lures positioned on traps only work in fairly still air. The molecules of the lure have to build up a bit to attract the male moths. Any molecules making their way outdoors would be diluted by even a slight wind and not leave a "trail" sufficient for the males to follow. Thomas A. Parker, PhD President, Entomologist Pest Control Services, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Neel, Scott A CIV USARMY FCOE (US) (US) <scott.a.neel2....@mail.mil> To: pestlist <pestlist@museumpests.net> Sent: Tue, Nov 28, 2017 12:51 pm Subject: [pestlist] Pheromone Pest Control Traps (UNCLASSIFIED) This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED Good morning. I work for the US Army at one of their museums and we use pheromone pest control traps, especially for carpet beetles. One of my staff was at a US Army museums course two weeks ago and was told by two conservators that all pheromone traps must be removed from all Army museums as they lure bugs in from outside with the pheromone - like through doors and windows. They stated that it attracts more insects in to the buildings and makes it more difficult to control pests (we have these pheromone traps as well as ground traps near doors and windows to catch anything coming in - no carpet beetles in the floor traps but we do get a couple in the pheromone traps). I have never heard of this happening before and wanted to check to see anyone has heard of this or knew approximately how far one of the pheromone traps "odor" went out from the trap. I just can't see that one of these small traps can lure insects through doors and walls like the two conservators stated. Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Scott A. Neel, PhD Director / Curator Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum US Army Fires Center of Excellence 372 Gannahl Road Fort Sill, OK 73503 Office: 580-442-6570 Fax: 580-442-0552 Website: http://sill-www.army.mil/museum/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fort-Sill-National-Historic-Landmark-and Museum/368889589827678 CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" OR just send an email to l...@zaks.com and ask to be removed. Any problems email l...@zaks.com ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" OR just send an email to l...@zaks.com and ask to be removed. Any problems email l...@zaks.com
