Integrated Pest Management Home

This site is brought to you as a service of the Integrated Pest Management Working Group, a group of collection managers, conservators and other professionals interested in issues surrounding the implementation of integrated pest management 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 the development and on-line distribution of training materials and other resources. In addition to the tools presented on this site, the group also maintains the IPM mailing list to provide a forum for discussion of IPM-related topics. The group is informally hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York and meets on an ad-hoc basis.

Announcements:

This past spring the IPM-WG was represented at the AIC,OSG (Denver), and the SPNHC (Oklahoma City) annual meetings. Rachel Perkins Arenstein gave a talk entitled “Bitten By the Bug: The Integrated Pest Management Working Group’s collaborative approach to providing IPM resources for the museum community,” to the joint AIC, OSG meeting. Shortly afterward, Chris Norris and Lisa Kronthal Elkin presented “Development of Best Practices in Integrated Pest Management,” at the SPNHC meeting. Look for these and other IPM presentations on the Resources page.

Please welcome Rachel Perkins Arenstein as the new co-chair of the IPM- WG. Rachael has been a motivating force for the group for many years serving as Secretary as well as chairing the Web Resources subgroup. In my opinion this announcement is long delayed as she has already assumed many of the responsibilities of chairing the working group.

2008’s successful meeting was attended by 26 museum professional and pest control experts from the US, Canada, and England. If you are not a member and would like to join please contact Neil Duncan (duncan@amnh.org).

Please watch for upcoming events:

A one-day course on Integrated Pest Management at the British Library, London, 22 July 2008. Taught by David Pinniger. Click here for additional information.