Bitten By the Bug: The Integrated Pest Management Working Group

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Bitten By the Bug The Integrated Pest Management
Working Groups collaborative approach to
providing IPM resources for the museum community

• Rachael Perkins Arenstein, Neil Duncan,
• Lisa Elkin, Richard Monk, Chris Norris

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Museums and Historical Societies
Conservation/Preservation Needs
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A Product Of The Integrated Pest Management
Working Group
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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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2002Participating 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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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

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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
  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.

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Initial Topic Choices

• 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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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

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3rd IPM-WG Meeting 2006
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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

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Identification Aids Subgroup

• Worst Offenders

• 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

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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

• 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