It is important to have worker protection for the testing of microbial
samples against insects. In our laboratory we have developed tools and
procedures for testing microbial samples against insects at a high standard
of safety. Features of our containment include: 1) custom enclosed liquid
handling system for dispensation of microbial samples onto insect diet, 2)
engineered an insect diet drying apparatus with bio-filtered output, 3)
built a specialized bioassay-reading glove box with imaging capabilities, 4)
as well as installed a new free-standing, scale-filtering moth enclosure.
In this poster we describe and show photographs of these safety tools.
Keywords: safety, bioassays
The ESA 2001 Annual Meeting - 2001: An Entomological Odyssey of ESA