Facility sanitation can have impacts on other aspects of pest management beyond fumigation. Toews et al. (2005) demonstrated that use of monitoring traps could be an effective
means of estimating population density, but only if sanitation conditions were high. However, monitoring for insect pests is a time and labor-intensive task. Both facility managers in this study reported that monitoring for insect pests was conducted on only the first floor of the facility. Trap capture rates on the first floor should therefore represent either the largest proportion of individuals in that environment or be representative of trap capture rates on each floor in the facility.