ABSTRACT
This report follows the one in the November edition of Conservation News, in which we explained that we were fumigating parts of our collections with carbon dioxide and methyl bromide. We used the new inflatable Rentokil fumigation bubble and tested its efficiency by putting various life-stages of meal-worm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, bluebottle fly, Calliphora sp., and carpet beetles, Attagenus pellio and Anthrenus verbasci, into the bubble with each fumigation, and keeping control samples of insects outside. Many museum conservators have encountered problems, and an objectionable smell when sulphur-containing materials have been fumigated with methyl bromide. As an experiment, materials specified as sensitive to methyl bromide were put into the bubble when this fumigant was ued.
