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- Title
Insect pest monitoring in museums - old and new strategies.
- Authors
Querner, Pascal
- Abstract
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an important part of preventive conservation of museum objects made of wood, textiles, starch, paper, keratin and other organic materials. Long term monitoring data help us to discover new infestations and locate them in the building. Results from over 20 institutions (museums, storages, historic libraries and historic palaces) are presented and discussed how the monitoring can be improved, where active infestations were found, what treatment was done as a response and what new methods are used. What pests are the most abundant, which species are new for the indoor museum environment and when do we actually have active infestation and damage of museum objects? Monitoring and IPM in museums is also compared with the food storage industry. IPM is applied in many museum today, mainly to reduce the application of pesticides, for a long-term protection of the objects and collections and early detection of infestations. In this presentation, long term monitoring data with sticky blunder and pheromone traps for webbing clothes moth Tineola bisselliella is described. The analysis of the data show that in all museums and storages buildings with a monitoring in place different insect pest species are present, but only in few collections damage to museum objects was found. New pests like the grey silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudata and Ctenolepisma calva - another species of Lepismatidae, are now found in many museums in Vienna, Austria. The odd beetle Thylodrias contractus was found recently in Austria, surprisingly in four different locations.
- Subjects
INSECT pests; MUSEUM storage facilities; INTEGRATED pest control; WEBBING clothes moth; PEST science
- Publication
Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2018, Issue 463, p239
- ISSN
1868-9892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5073/jka.2018.463.056