Integrated Pest Management for Collections

This collection of papers and posters presented at the ICON conference A Pest Odyssey – The Next Generation is evidence that integrated pest management (IPM) has been adopted globally as the accepted strategy within the cultural heritage sector to mitigate the risk posed to our unique collections by damaging pests. In 2021, after an unprecedented period of change in our work practices in response to restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a greater emphasis was placed on collaboration, remote monitoring and, of course, silverfish.

This collection of papers and posters presented at the ICON conference A Pest Odyssey – The Next Generation is evidence that integrated pest management (IPM) has been adopted globally as the accepted strategy within the cultural heritage sector to mitigate the risk posed to our unique collections by damaging pests. In 2021, after an unprecedented period of change in our work practices in response to restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a greater emphasis was placed on collaboration, remote monitoring and, of course, silverfish.

In memoriam: a personal tribute to Bob Child (1951-2019) David Pinniger Introduction Suzanne Ryder and Amy Crossman IPM strikes back: reviving a slumping IPM program Alan P. Van Dyke An oasis for pests? Setting up IPM in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Maickel van Bellegem, Eleonora Bosetto, Anabela Ferreira, Anthony Read, Fatima Al Tamimi and Mafalda Veleda What's bugging you? Research involved in the development of collection-specific IPM software and pest databases Melissa King, Ana Martins, Nathan McMinn and Austin Senseman Remote monitoring for museum pests: a 21st-century approach Adrian M Doyle, Patrick Kelley, Fabiana Portoni, Tatiana Marascoand Carlos Austin Gonzalez Training, tools and technology for managing IPM at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London Bhavesh Shah, Valerie Blyth, Maria Ines Carvalho and Anne Bancroft The use of technology to manage the next generation of house mice Chris Swindells The attractive qualities of wool and larval frass on wool to the webbing clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) Patrick Kelley, Rachael Arenstein and James Feston The detection of grey silverfish (Ctenolelepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905) in the Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt/Main Christian Dressen Preserving Peruvian organic cultural heritage using Andean lupin (Lupinus mutabilis) extracts Angelica Isa, Carolina Parada, Marilyn Palomino and Eliana Quispitupac Screening of two plant-derived extracts from Sri Lanka for their potential to control the subterranean termite Coptotermes formosanus Rudy Plarre, Udaya Cabral and Pascal Querner Preliminary trials with reduced temperatures in humidity controlled warm-air treatment: a gentler and more efficient way to disinfest artworks and cultural heritage objects Thomas Kolling, Eva-Maria Fennert, Thomas Schmitt and Nikolaus Wilke Efficacy of a low-cost simple solar heating box to eradicate insect pests in Sri Lankan libraries Udaya Cabral, Deepika Amarasinghe and Pascal Querner From discovery to recovery: managing a webbing clothes moth infestation at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of Harvard Cassy Cutulle, Matthew Vigneau, Molly Richmond, Khanh Nguyen, Lindsay Koso and Mollie Denhard Infestation stations! A novel full-cycle approach to webbing clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) eradication at Blickling Hall, Norfolk Hilary Jarvis, Nigel Blades, Ellie Hobbs and David Loughlin Using parasitoid wasps in integrated pest management for cultural heritage in Germany Stephan Biebl Pest comparison of three treatment methods for archival materials against grey silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905): re-evaluation of the efficacy limits of freezing, heating and anoxic treatment with oxygen absorbers Judith Wagner, Pascal Querner and Andrea Pataki-Hundt Pest Partners: increasing engagement with IPM Helena Jaeschke Adjusting to fit: shifting an organisation's approach to integrated pest management to better reflect cultural protocols, legal requirements and workplace dynamics Nyssa Mildwaters and Shannah Rhynard-Geil Pestily ever after: 20 years of IPM at National Museums Scotland Catherine Haworth Eltham Palace: 900 years of history, 20 years of IPM in practice Dee Lauder and David Pinniger IPM at Kyushu National Museum: developing strategies and cooperation Rika Kigawa, Hiroki Watanabe, Ayako Izumita, Shiho Tomimatsu and Mika Matsuo Instruction versus practice: where can we improve upon IPM? Alex Rowe, Simoni Da Ros and Katherine Curran Integrated pest management: from monitoring to control Christian Baars and Jane Henderson An international IPM survey of resources and activities conducted by the MuseumPests Working Group Lisa Goldberg, Eric Breitung, Zoe Hughes, Suzanne Ryder, Julie Unruh and Joel Voron

Warrang/Sydney IPM Group: a regional-specific digital collaborative forum Jessica Gray and Rehan Scharenguivel

From pamphlets to websites: the evolution of IPM resource material David Pinniger, Amy Crossman and Jane Thompson Webb

Debugging instructions for easy empowering IPM Christa Deacy-Quinn

A collaborative approach to developing and IPM programme in Myanmar Amy Crossman

The pesty business of translation: a global collaboration to bring MuseumPests.net to a wider audience Fabiana Portoni, Laura Garcia-Vedrenne, Silvia Manrique, Jessica Lewinsky, Beatriz Haspo, Maria Castaneda, Christian Untoiglich, Amparo Rueda, Sandra Joyce Ramirez, Armando Mendez, Rachael Perkins Arenstein and Paloma Mujica

And then there were none: the successful treatment of a silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum) outbreak during the COVID-19 pandemic Catherine Harris and Alexandra Walker Grey silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905) at the National Gallery, London: the importance of monitoring and advocacy in IPM Kristina Mandy and Sarah Coggins The use of Advion Cockroach Gel Bait against the grey silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905) in museums in Austria Pascal Querner Poster presentations First occurrence of Oligomerus ptilinoides (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) in domestic premises in the UK Matthew Paul Davies and Jonathan Binge Battling booklice in Scottish galleries, libraries, archives and museums Jeanne Robinson, Joseph C. Jackson and Ashleigh L. Whiffin Seasonal changes in the distribution of head capsule size of a silverfish species Hiroki Watanabe, Rika Kigawa and Tom Strang Mice and moths: from one infestation to another Greg Fee New adventures in IPM quarantine: still work in progress Volker Hingst Targeting grey silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905): implementing an effective IPM programme in a small to mid-sized institution on a limited budget Antonia Reime Aabo Selective feeding on paper and cardboard and limited dispersal of the long-tailed silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905) in archives Volker Busch, Sabine Prozell and Matthias Scholler Conservation of cultural heritage: biological control of the common furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum) with the parasitoid wasp species Spathius exarator Judith Auer, Christine Opitz and Alexander Kassel Making room for traditional ecological knowledge in conservation: learning by example Elizabeth Salmon The history of integrated pest management (IPM) at the Natural History Museum, London Suzanne Ryder and David Pinniger The Spiraea who came in from the cold: treating an entire collection, kitchen sink and all Clare Booth-Downs and Yvette Harvey Insect pests underground: managing pests in the secret wartime tunnels under Dover Castle Wendy Richardson Management of priorities, goals, and training in the execution of a pest mitigation project at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Cassy Cutulle Advocating for IPM during a pandemic when a local authority has bigger concerns Gwenllian Thomas,

In memoriam: a personal tribute to Bob Child (1951–2019)
David Pinniger

Introduction
Suzanne Ryder and Amy Crossman    

IPM strikes back: reviving a slumping IPM program
Alan P. Van Dyke      

An oasis for pests? Setting up IPM in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi
Maickel van Bellegem, Eleonora Bosetto, Anabela Ferreira, Anthony Read, Fatima Al Tamimi and Mafalda Veleda

What’s bugging you? Research involved in the development of collection-specific IPM software and pest databases
Melissa King, Ana Martins, Nathan McMinn and Austin Senseman

Remote monitoring for museum pests: a 21st-century approach
Adrian M Doyle, Patrick Kelley, Fabiana Portoni, Tatiana Marasco and Carlos Austin Gonzalez 

Training, tools and technology for managing IPM at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bhavesh Shah, Valerie Blyth, Maria Ines Carvalho and Anne Bancroft  

The use of technology to manage the next generation of house mice
Chris Swindells

The attractive qualities of wool and larval frass on wool to the webbing clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella)
Patrick Kelley, Rachael Arenstein and James Feston 

The detection of grey silverfish (Ctenolelepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905) in the Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt/Main
Christian Dressen

Preserving Peruvian organic cultural heritage using Andean lupin (Lupinus mutabilis) extracts
Angélica Isa, Carolina Parada, Marilyn Palomino and Eliana Quispitupac

Screening of two plant-derived extracts from Sri Lanka for their potential to control the subterranean termite Coptotermes formosanus
Rudy Plarre, Udaya Cabral and Pascal Querner 

Preliminary trials with reduced temperatures in humidity controlled warm-air treatment: a gentler and more efficient way to disinfest artworks and cultural heritage objects
Thomas Kolling, Eva-Maria Fennert, Thomas Schmitt and Nikolaus Wilke

Efficacy of a low-cost simple solar heating box to eradicate insect pests in Sri Lankan libraries 
Udaya Cabral, Deepika Amarasinghe and Pascal Querner 

From discovery to recovery: managing a webbing clothes moth infestation at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of Harvard
Cassy Cutulle, Matthew Vigneau, Molly Richmond, Khanh Nguyen, Lindsay Koso and Mollie Denhard

Infestation stations! A novel full-cycle approach to webbing clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) eradication at Blickling Hall, Norfolk
Hilary Jarvis, Nigel Blades, Ellie Hobbs and David Loughlin

Using parasitoid wasps in integrated pest management for cultural heritage in Germany
Stephan Biebl

Pest comparison of three treatment methods for archival materials against grey silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905): re-evaluation of the efficacy limits of freezing, heating and anoxic treatment with oxygen absorbers
Judith Wagner, Pascal Querner and Andrea Pataki-Hundt

Pest Partners: increasing engagement with IPM
Helena Jaeschke

Adjusting to fit: shifting an organisation’s approach to integrated pest management to better reflect cultural protocols, legal requirements and workplace dynamics
Nyssa Mildwaters and Shannah Rhynard-Geil

Pestily ever after: 20 years of IPM at National Museums Scotland
Catherine Haworth

Eltham Palace: 900 years of history, 20 years of IPM in practice
Dee Lauder and David Pinniger

IPM at Kyushu National Museum: developing strategies and cooperation
Rika Kigawa, Hiroki Watanabe, Ayako Izumita, Shiho Tomimatsu and Mika Matsuo

Instruction versus practice: where can we improve upon IPM?
Alex Rowe, Simoní Da Ros and Katherine Curran

Integrated pest management: from monitoring to control
Christian Baars and Jane Henderson

An international IPM survey of resources and activities conducted by the MuseumPests Working Group
Lisa Goldberg, Eric Breitung, Zoë Hughes, Suzanne Ryder, Julie Unruh and Joel Voron

Warrang/Sydney IPM Group: a regional-specific digital collaborative forum
Jessica Gray and Rehan Scharenguivel

From pamphlets to websites: the evolution of IPM resource material
David Pinniger, Amy Crossman and Jane Thompson Webb 

Debugging instructions for easy empowering IPM
Christa Deacy-Quinn

A collaborative approach to developing and IPM programme in Myanmar
Amy Crossman

The pesty business of translation: a global collaboration to bring MuseumPests.net to a wider audience
Fabiana Portoni, Laura García-Vedrenne, Silvia Manrique, Jessica Lewinsky, Beatriz Haspo, María Castañeda, Christian Untoiglich, Amparo Rueda, Sandra Joyce Ramirez, Armando Mendez, Rachael Perkins Arenstein and Paloma Mujica

And then there were none: the successful treatment of a silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum) outbreak during the COVID-19 pandemic
Catherine Harris and Alexandra Walker

Grey silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905) at the National Gallery, London: the importance of monitoring and advocacy in IPM
Kristina Mandy and Sarah Coggins

The use of Advion Cockroach Gel Bait against the grey silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905) in museums in Austria
Pascal Querner 

Poster presentations

First occurrence of Oligomerus ptilinoides (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) in domestic premises in the UK
Matthew Paul Davies and Jonathan Binge

Battling booklice in Scottish galleries, libraries, archives and museums
Jeanne Robinson, Joseph C. Jackson and Ashleigh L. Whiffin

Seasonal changes in the distribution of head capsule size of a silverfish species
Hiroki Watanabe, Rika Kigawa and Tom Strang

Mice and moths: from one infestation to another
Greg Fee

New adventures in IPM quarantine: still work in progress
Volker Hingst

Targeting grey silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905): implementing an effective IPM programme in a small to mid-sized institution on a limited budget
Antonia Reime Aabø 

Selective feeding on paper and cardboard and limited dispersal of the long-tailed silverfish (Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905) in archives
Volker Busch, Sabine Prozell and Matthias Schöller 

Conservation of cultural heritage: biological control of the common furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum) with the parasitoid wasp species Spathius exarator
Judith Auer, Christine Opitz and Alexander Kassel

Making room for traditional ecological knowledge in conservation: learning by example
Elizabeth Salmon

The history of integrated pest management (IPM) at the Natural History Museum, London
Suzanne Ryder and David Pinniger

The Spiraea who came in from the cold: treating an entire collection, kitchen sink and all
Clare Booth-Downs and Yvette Harvey

Insect pests underground: managing pests in the secret wartime tunnels under Dover Castle
Wendy Richardson

Management of priorities, goals, and training in the execution of a pest mitigation project at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Cassy Cutulle

Advocating for IPM during a pandemic when a local authority has bigger concerns
Gwenllian Thomas

• Edited by Suzanne Ryder
• Edited by Amy Crossman