Tuesday 23 February 2021
Pest Control
For some reason, this piece about National Trust pest control efforts was a reminder of why we left the organisation last year. The dear old, increasingly woke and batty National Trust seems to regard visitors as some kind of necessary pest. It also seems to regard our history as an abnormal infestation, a long outbreak of horribleness to be atoned for at every opportunity.
The Trust will this month begin a pest control trial at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, using biological methods in a combination never previously applied to a heritage setting as a way of mitigating the increasing damage caused by clothes moths.
Assistant national conservator Hilary Jarvis says the Trust hopes its “pioneering approach will provide a practical and sustainable method that any of our properties can use to deal with serious infestations”.
Nothing wrong with innovation, but when it comes to pest control, "effective" might be a better guide than "sustainable". Everything I read about the National Trust seems to be a reminder of why we left.
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I hope the pheromones they are using to disrupt the breeding of the moths don't cause any inconvenience to any gay, bisexual, or trans moths.
Blickling has been at the forefront of several changes the Trust has made, they tried to charge one fee even if you only wanted to see the house or garden separately, they reversed that, and then to walk your dog in the woods as many have done for years they now want a £5 parking fee.
Redundancies, despite huge cash reserves, a focus on outside spaces, it all change for the worst under the progressive general secretary Hilary McGrady....
https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/will-there-be-changes-at-national-trust-properties-in-norfolk-1586508
Sam - I hope so too, otherwise the NT could decide to focus on moth diversity instead of getting rid of them.
Wiggia - the wife of a friend was an NT volunteer until they proposed getting rid of the volunteers in favour of paid staff. I haven't seen them for a while so I don't know how that turned out.
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