Soon to come... Museum Pest Fact Sheets

After several years of compiling data and images, we are very close to releasing finished Museum Pest Fact Sheets. A group of museum pest experts and entomologists who make up the Integrated Pest Management Working Group – ID Aids committee made a determination of the most common pests that affect collections based on a survey of museum professionals. We list of pests that have nearly complete Fact Sheets includes:

American Cockroach	Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus)
Black Larder Beetle	Dermestes ater (De Geer)
Brownbanded Cockroach	Supella longipalpa (Fabricius)
Casemaking Clothes Moth	Tinea pellionella (Linnaeus)
Cigarette beetle	Lasioderma serricorne (Fabricius)
Drugstore Beetle	Stegobium paniceum (Linnaeus)
Firebrat	Thermobia domestica (Packard)
German Cockroach	Blattella germanica (Linnaeus)
Hide Beetle	Dermestes maculatus (De Geer)
Larder Beetle	Dermestes lardarius (Linnaeus)
Odd Beetle	Thylodrias contractus (Motschulsky)
Oriental Cockroach	Blatta orientalis (Linnaeus)
Silverfish	Lepisma saccharina (Linnaeus)
Vodka Beetle	Attagenus smirnovi
Warehouse Beetle	Trogoderma variabile (Ballion)
Webbing Clothes Moth	Tineola bisselliella (Hummel)
Whiteshouldered House Moth	Endrosis sarcitrella (Linnaeus)

This list will be expanded in the future to encompass an even broader range of pests.

The Fact Sheets will be an easy to read, single page handout for each pest. It will include; general information, identification, signs of infestation, food sources, life-cycle and treatment options for that pest. Identification images and images of pest damage will also play an important role on the fact sheets. An optional second sheet can be printed that will have bibliographic references for the information collected for that particular sheet.

These sheets will link into a library of additional information about the pest and an image library of the pest on sticky traps, their damage, and other identification images of the pest in different stages of life.

In an effort to come up with a full library of pest images, we would also like to call for any pest images that you think would benefit the museum community. We suspect that there are thousands of images on personal and work computers that would be extremely valuable to your peers. Credit on all images will be given. We are also interested in images of pest damage if there is documented information regarding which pest caused the damage. For questions or to contribute images please contact p.kelley@insectslimited.com.

Thank you and please check back soon.

Click here to view the white sheets.