. Agri-news. Agriculture. October 26, 1981 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IUSEUM ARTIFACTS SAVED BY FUMIGATOR. The fumigator that saved the museum artifacts. A fumigator owned by the Alberta Beekeepers Association and designed by Alberta Agriculture saves museum artifacts. It all started when a flying insect was spotted in the storage area of the Glenbow Museum's department of ethnology. Two weeks later when a staff member was checking Cree Indian artifacts, he discovered a heavy infestation of moths, larvae and eggs in one of the storage cabinets. Specimens were promptly sent to the University of Calg
. Agri-news. Agriculture. October 26, 1981 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IUSEUM ARTIFACTS SAVED BY FUMIGATOR. The fumigator that saved the museum artifacts. A fumigator owned by the Alberta Beekeepers Association and designed by Alberta Agriculture saves museum artifacts. It all started when a flying insect was spotted in the storage area of the Glenbow Museum's department of ethnology. Two weeks later when a staff member was checking Cree Indian artifacts, he discovered a heavy infestation of moths, larvae and eggs in one of the storage cabinets. Specimens were promptly sent to the University of Calgary where they were iden- tified by entomologists as the common clothes moth. Since the storage area contained furs, feathers, textiles and leather, the situation was very serious indeed. In fact, it was so serious that two conservators from the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa flew to Calgary to help isolate the infested area, to seal storage cabinets and to prepare the infested material for fumigation. However, because the individual areas in the Glenbow Museum cannot be isolated from the rest of the building, fumigating the collections posed a real problem. Museum staff (cont'd! lone: (403) 427-2127 /diborra AGRICULTURE Communications Division. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Communications Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Print Media Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. Publishing Branch. [Edmonton] : Communications Branch, Alberta Dept. of Agriculture
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