<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear community of sb'rs,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Continuing on this subject of straw and insects, I have gotten yet another email about a project I was involved in in Pennsylvania saying that they are still dealing with a moth infestation. It is an industrial manufacturing facility that is part straw bale. The latest email said..."it<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> seems to be worsening. The moths have been identified as a common grain moth and they are everywhere. They don't respond to sex traps and we have just set out a blue light trap. It is early, but doesn't seem to be working either. Other than tenting the building and using nasty chemicals, the exterminator is out of ideas. We also just got a huge crop of nats that he says is tied to the straw."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; ">The moths first appeared, along with a spider, in the truth window. They had initially left one top of wall unsealed, which when that was realized, was plastered in hopes that that might solve the issue in the building.</span><br></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I am honestly not sure what to tell them and hope someone else may have successfully dealt with a similar issue. We discussed various options, all of which have drawbacks.</span></font></span></font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">On the other hand, the project has been very successful in other ways, particularly in introducing interior earthen plasters using site soil with a large plaster subcontractor. They loved the material, and hope to do more. The straw bale was the first in the area. The project is seeking LEED Gold status. <br></span></font></span></font><div><div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any thoughts on this,</div><div>Laura</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(76, 114, 29); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">Laura Bartels</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4C721D" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b><i>GreenWeaver Inc.</i></b></span></font></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(76, 114, 29); "><b><i>P.O. Box 912, Carbondale, CO 81623<br>Ph 970-379-6779, Fax 970-963-0905<br><a href="mailto:laura@greenweaverinc.com">laura@greenweaverinc.com</a><br>www.greenweaverinc.com</i></b></span></span></div></div></span> </div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>