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:

Please look for our upcoming presentations:

“Development of Best Practices in Integrated Pest Management” to be presented at the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) Annual Meeting at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on Friday, May 16, 2008.

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.

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).