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The Pest Odyssey group consists of professionals from the cultural heritage sector with a wide experience of IPM, a personal interest and demonstrated dedication to the program and its applications. We effectively represent the cultural sector and members are from a wide group which includes; Nation...

There is very little information on the distribution of indoor insect pests, and particularly those that infest museum collections. In 2009, the authors developed a website using Renaissance in the Regions funding. The site www.whatseatingyourcollection.com was devised to be a source of information ...

This paper outlines the current status in Europe of Anobium punctatum and reviews its biology, environmental requirements and food sources. It will also review historic insecticidal treatment methods, their efficacy and the long term problems their residues may cause. It evaluates the efficacy of cu...

The concept of “Risk Zones” to evaluate and set priorities for preventing damage to collections across the whole museum has been used as a very useful tool by a number of major museums in London. Pest monitoring using sticky traps is well organised and documented, and many organisations in the UK us...

Records of visits to 22,615 dwellings in the London Borough of Southwark, for period October 1993 to December 1998, were examined. Data were analysed for ghost ants (Tapinoma melanocephalum Fab.), pharaoh ants (Monomorium pharaonis L.), house mice (Mus musculus L.) and brown rats (Rattus norvegicus ...

A number of species of carpet beetles (Anthrenus spp) that are household pests attack museum collections and can cause severe damage to natural history specimens, textiles and ethnographic objects. Many of the species such as the varied carpet beetle, Anthrenus verbasci. have their origin in birds' ...