Pest Management
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Pest Management
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Environmental and health concerns have caused a radical change in the popular perception of chemical pest control methods. Governmental and environmental agencies seek to further limit the uses of chemicals in areas that have, till now, accepted them as routine treatments. As an example, the German Dangerous Substances Act requires that "toxic gases may no longer be employed if a toxin free procedure is effective and reasonable." Here in the UK, if we are to be realistic, we must also anticipate a general move in this direction. These concerns have led to the development of what are essentially two new processes. Designed to treat insect pests in objects these treatments are thermal with controlled humidity and inert gas fumigation.
Describes a commercial anoxia system using 99% nitrogen, and offers a spreadsheet for calculating cost comparisons. Includes an overview of pest control, fumigation, and insect identification, with photographs. Although the site covers food-storage applications, the company reports that it has been used in museums.
"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 group is informally hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York and meets on an ad-hoc basis. 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. The group also maintains the IPM mailing list to provide a forum for discussion of IPM-related topics."
- National Park Service
- National Park Service
- The National Park Service Integrated Pest Management Manual
- Museum Handbook, Chapter 5: Biological Infestations (PDF)
- The NPS Conserve O Gram series includes several pamphlets (in PDF format)
- An Insect Pest Control Procedure: The Freezing Process
- Monitoring Insect Pests with Sticky Traps
- Controlling Insect Pests: Alternatives to Pesticides
- NEDCC
- Integrated Pest Management, Technical Leaflet
- Desorption of Residual Ethylene Oxide from Fumigated Library Materials
- Frank H. Hengemihle, Norman Weberg and Chandru J. Shahani Preservation Research and Testing Office November 1995, Preservation Research and Testing Series No. 9502.
- Northern States Conservation Center
- NSCC Pest control page
- Pesticide Action Network (PAN)
- PAN Pesticide Database
Pesticide Database Web site, your one-stop location for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides. The PAN Pesticide Database brings together a diverse array of information on pesticides from many different sources...
This work was supported by grants from the David B. Gold Foundation, U.S. EPA, Region IX, the Bauman Foundation, Californians for Pesticide Reform, and other funders and supporters of Pesticide Action Network North America.
- Tom Strang
- Reducing the Risk to Collections from Pests
- PRE-MAL
- Swedish working group PRE-MAL, Pest Research and Education--Museums Archives and Libraries
- Ted Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook
- Integrated Pest Management, featuring contributed chapters by internationally acclaimed experts. This project is co-sponsored by the Consortium for International Crop Protection (CICP) and National IPM Network (NIPMN).
- Christopher Waller
- Sauerstoffarme Lagerung von Kunstwerken aus Metall und organischen Substanzen, giftfreie Schädlingsbekämpfung durch Sauerstoffentzug, Anoxic storage, Pest control without poisonous gas by oxygen deprivation (in German)