Hi Anna,
I’ve had good results treating bird mounts with the Hanwell Anoxibug setup from
Insects Limited:
https://www.insectslimited.com/store/anoxic-storage-solutions
If you skip the oxygen indicator, you’ll know you had an air-tight cube if the
oxygen scavengers heat up again when you cut the cube open at the end of the
treatment. Or you could use a sacrificial assay. The Insects Limited crew is
very helpful. You may want to double check with them about using an adequate
amount of silica or clay humidity stabilizers.
Of course, if you put the birds back in the leaky case, it seems likely they
might get reinfested.
Good luck,
Mike
Mike Quigley (he/him)
Assistant Curator
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
Bowdoin College
9500 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011
United States
207-725-3305
mquig...@bowdoin.edu<mailto:mquig...@bowdoin.edu>
bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum<https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/>
From: 'Thomas Parker' via MuseumPests
Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 9:39 PM
To: pestlist@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PestList] Clothing Moths and Vapona
I would purchase new vapona strips. Old ones tend to “sweat” liquid vapona
inside theor foil package and lose their effectiveness.
Tom Parker
On Feb 29, 2024, at 9:09 PM, Anna E Goldman wrote:
Hello all,
I have just discovered a moth infestation in one of our bird taxidermy cases
(15+ moth carcasses and a few specimens with frass at the base). The case it's
in, is not air tight and not up to any museum standard. It is also (as an added
bonus), a study room for students of the university.
We do not have a freezer that gets cold enough for anything shorter than 5
weeks for decontaminating. I do have old vapona strips. I would obviously block
access to the room for at least one week after the end of fumigation- but my
question is-
Do any of you have an opinion/ experience with long term effects of vapona on
specimens? I have been told it can "activate" fats and damage mounted
taxidermy, but I can't seem to find any source data. Ideally, I would leave the
specimens in the case and fumigate.
Thank you!
Anna
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Wildlife Museum Curator
Marine Wildlife Care Coordinator
Department of Wildlife
California Polytechnic University
Arcata, California 95521 USA
(707) 826-4034
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