Bitten By the Bug: The Integrated Pest Management Working Group’s collaborative approach to...

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

& The Integrated Pest Management Working Group

Museums and Historical Societies Conservation/Preservation Needs


A Product Of The Integrated Pest Management Working Group


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


Pest Damage


Monitoring during the

NMAI Move


Evolution of data recording

Log book

Worksheet

Excel spreadsheet


Pest Manager Screens


Pest Manager Screen capture


Bar Codes & Scanning

Scanning pest identifications Bar code labels for sticky traps


Monitoring Times

• 19 hours without database (bimonthly collection)

• 16 hours with database (bimonthly collection)

• 10 hours with database and scanning (monthly collection)


2002Participating Institutions

•American Museum of Natural History•Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian•Museum of Texas Tech University•Zak Software


PestList Listserve


2005Participating 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


Mission StatementThe 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 collection-holding 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.


Initial Topic Choices

• Software for Mapping and Monitoring• Data collection• Rapid Processing• Identification Aids• Standards & Best Practices• Treatment• Education/Dissemination• IPM Website


Website


ZPest Database


IPM Questionnaire


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


Wiki site for subgroup use


2007Participating 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


3rd IPM-WG Meeting

2006


2008Participating 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


Identification Aids Subgroup

• 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

• 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

Worst Offenders


Pest ID Fact Sheets


Standards & Best Practices Subgroup

Policy & Procedure Templates

Policy and Procedure Documents


Standards & Best Practices Grid


Data Collection Subgroup

Z-Pest Database

Database Field List


Treatment Subgroup

Treatment fact sheets and case studies


Visualization Subgroup

Programs for pest mapping


Web Resources Subgroup

Online resources

Bibliographies


PowerPoint training presentations


What were we thinking?


Tips for collaborative work

• 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


Ready to toss it all away?


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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