Notice bibliographique du personnel « Seeing is Believing, A Fourteen-Year Study on Efficacy and Economics of Visual Inspections to Protect A Large Mammal Collection from Insect Pests »
- Titre
- Seeing is Believing, A Fourteen-Year Study on Efficacy and Economics of Visual Inspections to Protect A Large Mammal Collection from Insect Pests
- Auteur ou éditeur
- Strang, Thomas J.K.
- Jacobs, Jeremy
- Date de publication
- 2018
- Collation
- 59-90
- Titre de la source
- Collection forum
- Numéro de la source
- vol. 32, no. 1
- Résumé
- In response to the cessation of use of in-case fumigants, from1995–2009 the Smithsonian
- Institution, NationalMuseum of Natural History’s Division of Mammals (DOM) applied a consistent
- voluntary visual inspection protocol over a period of 14 years. On average, per-case inspections required
- about 7 minutes. Inspections categorized case pest activity as clean, soiled, signs of life, and live insects.
- These categories compartmentalized levels of uncertainty about pest activity and directly led to remedial
- treatment and cleaning actions performed at a case level. Evidence of recurrent reinfestation led to case
- renovation or replacement.
- In order for an integrated pest management (IPM) method to be successful, it has to demonstrate a
- predatory efficacy better than the replacement and recruitment rates of the pests.With at most 1.5% of
- staff time devoted to IPM, case infestations of Thylodrias contractus (Motschulsky 1839) Coleoptera:
- Dermestidae and Necrobia rufipes (DeGeer 1775) Coleoptera: Cleridae were lowered to near zero within
- 3 years. Rebound toward initial rates occurred after a forced 3-year hiatus in inspections and was similarly
- dealt with by a following round of inspections. The hourly investment of time is comparable with
- that of previous case repellant or fumigation regimes, but without the aggregated loss of access to collections
- during enclosure and out-gassing of fumigant, thus allowing longer and safer access to collections
- over a year, and instilling greater knowledge of specimen condition across the collection regardless of
- current research focus. The study also includes an economic comparison to historical methods of case
- level pest suppression with fumigants against two other comparably large collections documented within
- the last half century
- Langue
- English = Anglais
- Sujet
- collection pest,
- database,
- economics,
- fipes,
- Thylodrias contractus
- visual inspection.
- ravageur de collection,
- base de données,
- économie,
- inspection visuelle.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 08314985
- Pays
- United States
- Type de document
- Journal Article = Article de périodique
- Localisation
- #16694
- Clé
- 2131
- Collection
- Staff Bibliography