Bitten By the Bug: The
Integrated Pest Management
Working Group’s collaborative
approach to providing IPM
resources for the museum
community
Rachael Perkins Arenstein, Neil Duncan,
Lisa Elkin, Richard Monk, Chris Norris
Museums and Historical Societies Conservation/Preservation Needs
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What is IPM?
A strategy that emphasizes
prevention and aims to
minimize the use of toxic
chemicals to manage and
eliminate pests.
• Prevent access
• Monitor activity
• Remediate if necessary
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Pest Damage
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Monitoring
during the
NMAI Move
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Evolution of data
recording
Log book
Worksheet
Excel spreadsheet
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Pest Manager
Screens
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Pest Manager Screen capture
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Bar Codes & Scanning
Scanning pest identifications
Bar code labels for sticky traps
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Monitoring Times
• 19 hours without
database (bimonthly
collection)
• 16 hours with database
(bimonthly collection)
• 10 hours with database
and scanning (monthly
collection)
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2002
Participating Institutions
•American Museum of Natural History
•Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian
•Museum of Texas Tech University
•Zak Software
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PestList Listserve
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2005
Participating Institutions
•American Museum of Natural History
•Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian
•Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
•Peabody Museum, Harvard
•Peabody Museum, Yale
•Milwaukee Public Museum
•Canadian Conservation Institute
•Swedish Museum of Natural History
•Insects Limited
•Zak Software
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Mission Statement
The Integrated Pest Management
Working Group is a group of
collection managers, conservators
and other professionals interested
in issues surrounding the
implementation of integrated
pest management (IPM) in
museums and other collectionholding institutions. The goal of
the group is to promote and
facilitate good IPM practices and
collaboration between staff and
institutions through
development and on-line
distribution of training materials
and other resources.
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Initial Topic Choices
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Software for Mapping and Monitoring
Data collection
Rapid Processing
Identification Aids
Standards & Best Practices
Treatment
Education/Dissemination
IPM Website
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Website
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ZPest Database
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IPM Questionnaire
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2006
Participating Institutions
•American Museum of Natural History
•Smithsonian Institution
•The National Museum of the American Indian
•National Museum of Natural History
•Museum Support Center
•Historic New England - Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
•Peabody Museum, Harvard University
•Peabody Museum, Yale University
•U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center
•Canadian Museum of Nature
•Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
•Natural History Museum, London
•Insects Limited
•Steritech
•Zak Software
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Wiki site for subgroup use
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2007
Participating Institutions
•American Museum of Natural History
•Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian
•Peabody Museum, Harvard University
•Peabody Museum, Yale University
•Historic New England - Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
•U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center
•Canadian Museum of Nature
•Natural History Museum, London
•Denver Museum of Nature and Science
•Lower East Side Tenement Museum
•Insects Limited
•Zak Software
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IPM-WG
Meeting
2006
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2008
Participating Institutions
•American Museum of Natural History
•Smithsonian Institution
•National Museum of the American Indian
•Museum Support Center
•Harvard University Herbaria
•Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
•U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center
•Historic New England - Society for the Preservation of
New England Antiquities
•Canadian Museum of Nature
•Natural History Museum, London
•Denver Museum of Nature and Science
•Lower East Side Tenement Museum
•Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
•Baltimore Museum of Art
•Upstate History Alliance
•Insects Limited
•Zak Software
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Identification Aids Subgroup
Worst Offenders
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American Cockroach Periplaneta americana
Black Larder Beetle Dermestes ater
Brownbanded Cockroach Supella longipalpa
Casemaking Clothes Moth Tinea pellionella
Cigarette beetle Lasioderma serricorne
Drugstore Beetle Stegobium paniceum
Firebrat Thermobia domestica
German Cockroach Blattella germanica
Hide Beetle Dermestes maculatus
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Larder Beetle Dermestes lardarius
Odd Beetle Thylodrias contractus
Oriental Cockroach Blatta orientalis
Silverfish Lepisma saccharina
Vodka Beetle Attagenus smirnovi
Warehouse Beetle Trogoderma variabile
Webbing Clothes Moth Tineola bisselliella
White shouldered House Moth Endrosis sarcitrella
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Pest ID Fact Sheets
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Standards & Best Practices Subgroup
Policy & Procedure Templates
Policy and
Procedure
Documents
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Standards & Best Practices Grid
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Data Collection Subgroup
Database Field List
Z-Pest Database
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Treatment Subgroup
Treatment fact sheets and case studies
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Visualization Subgroup
Programs for pest mapping
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Web Resources Subgroup
Bibliographies
Online resources
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PowerPoint training presentations
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What were we thinking?
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Tips for
collaborative work
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Draw on expertise of all stakeholders
Open to the community
Flexible organizational structure
Transparent work process
Recruit good leadership
Set realistic goals & show progress
Follow up on commitments
Take very good minutes
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Ready to toss
it all away?
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THANK YOU
• The members of the Integrated Pest Management
Working Group and their institutions
• AMNH – Division of Vertebrate Zoology
• Leon Zak, Zak Software
• Pat Kelley, Insects Limited
• Pest images courtesy of
Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net
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