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Confused Flour Beetle

Pests. Every museum has them. This flour beetle, likely a confused flour beetle or red flour beetle, is common in the food industry and is primarily interested in stored grains. In a museum collection, it can be tempted by dried specimens. Here at the Brooklyn Museum, our IPM (integrated pest management) guidelines encompass a variety of techniques to keep this and other pests at bay. 

By ensuring the building is well sealed, organic objects are bagged upon entering the building until they can be reviewed, and keeping clean and dry storage spaces, we minimize the potential of bringing a detrimental infestation into the collection. Of course, insects can always hitch a ride into the building with employees or visitors. In order to monitor which areas might have pest issues, we place traps in exhibition and storage spaces throughout the building. The traps are regularly brought to conservation where we ID the bugs caught, and follow through with recommendations should a particular area become problematic.

“Creamsicle” orange & vanilla Bundt cake

Strawberry cupcakes

Double chocolate cookies

Sugar cookies

EGGLESS The Gray Stuff

Handmade kosher chicken nuggets!

5 skinless chicken tenders (more if you’re expecting half the neighborhood; this is for ~2 servings)

2 eggs (again, more will be necessary, 2 per every 5 extra tenders) UNLESS you prefer to use just egg whites. You’ll need like 1 1/2 cup per every 5 I think. I don’t use just egg whites.

Panko crumbs

Garlic power

Onion powder

Fine-ground Sea salt

Optional paprika (but not really optional)

Cooking oil (I use olive oil)

A Jew who’s willing to cook (me)

A very patient roommate

Manischewitz and/or if you have a dry campus dorm, Kedem grape juice. Or Coke. Whatever. No judgement here.

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Cut your tenders up into bits. You want them to be about the length of the tip of your thumb to the first knuckle, and about two fingers wide, but I’m not in charge of your life.

Crack eggs into a bowl/pour egg whites into a bowl. Blend with a fork until scrambled, unless you’re using egg whites, in which case don’t bother mixing them.

Prepare a bowl of panko crumbs and your seasonings. Make sure this bowl is large enough for you to roll your chicken pieces in.

Dunk your chicken pieces into the egg, thoroughly saturating them, before you smush them into your panko bowl. Get them covered evenly on both sides!

Prepare cooking pan with oil. I use medium heat (~240F on my stovetop). You want enough oil to cook the chicken in, but not so much that it looks like your baby cousin’s bar mitzvah photos.

Fry your chicken pieces a couple at a time, occasionally turning them to get a nice even dark gold color. Don’t worry too much if they get a little burnt, it’s fine. You’re not Gordon Ramsey (bless him tho).

Bribe your goyische roommate to eat with you and don’t look hurt when they ask for ketchup and/or ranch dressing.

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Allergy diet<\p>

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Control and Stop<\p>

Insect control: lax flour beetles<\p>

Exile all infested packages. Clean spilled grain and infested adytum areas using a void followed around soapy water. Locker all dried food goods in a glass or flexile container toward a tight lid in order to limit spreading if one feed becomes infested. Consider storing cereals and much at one foods in the refrigerator to limit stored pantry pest problems.<\p>

Prevention is the best strategy to avoid insect problems in to spare grains. Proper basement sanitation before introduction of once again grain minimizes the need for pesticides. Good sanitation involves the removal of ancient grain and dust in and around the grain shelf. This includes removal of old grain from corners, floors, and walls. Any thimbleful long-lasting still a bin is emptied can landing place insect infestations which will move into the new grain. Grain that is to be present in abeyance for longer than six months may need a protective application of an approved insecticide.<\p>

Before grain is placed in a bin, it should be found screened in transit to dispose of fine materials and broken kernels. Grain ordered in a clean bin should be checked at two week intervals during warm months and at one month intervals during cooler months now the tone of hotspots, worn areas, and live insects. If integral of these conditions draw breath, the grain needs must be aerated to lower the moisture level and temperature.<\p>

Fumigation ought only have being used as well a last resort. Because as for the high communicability of on the books fumigants and technical knowledge needed for their straight use, a qualified poisoner applicator should be contacted if disinfestation is required.<\p>