1. Bitten By the Bug: The Integrated Pest Management Working Group’s collaborative approach to providing IPM resources for the museum community Rachael Perkins Arenstein, Neil Duncan, Lisa Elkin, Richard Monk, Chris Norris

2. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Museums and Historical Societies Conservation/Preservation Needs

3. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group A Product Of The Integrated Pest Management Working Group

4. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group What is IPM? A strategy that emphasizes prevention and aims to minimize the use of toxic chemicals to manage and eliminate pests. Prevent access Monitor activity Remediate if necessary

5. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Pest Damage

6. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Monitoring during the NMAI Move

7. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Evolution of data recording Log book Worksheet Excel spreadsheet

8. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Pest Manager Screens

9. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Pest Manager Screen capture

10. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Bar Codes & Scanning Scanning pest identifications Bar code labels for sticky traps

11. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Monitoring Times 19 hours without database (bimonthly collection) 16 hours with database (bimonthly collection) 10 hours with database and scanning (monthly collection)

12. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group 2002 Participating Institutions American Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian Museum of Texas Tech University Zak Software

13. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group PestList Listserve

14. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group 2005 Participating Institutions American Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Peabody Museum, Harvard Peabody Museum, Yale Milwaukee Public Museum Canadian Conservation Institute Swedish Museum of Natural History Insects Limited Zak Software

15. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Mission Statement The Integrated Pest Management Working Group is a group of collection managers, conservators and other professionals interested in issues surrounding the implementation of integrated pest management (IPM) 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 development and on-line distribution of training materials and other resources.

16. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Initial Topic Choices Software for Mapping and Monitoring Data collection Rapid Processing Identification Aids Standards & Best Practices Treatment Education/Dissemination IPM Website

17. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Website

18. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group ZPest Database

19. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group IPM Questionnaire

20. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group 2006 Participating Institutions American Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution The National Museum of the American Indian National Museum of Natural History Museum Support Center Historic New England - Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities Peabody Museum, Harvard University Peabody Museum, Yale University U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center Canadian Museum of Nature Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Natural History Museum, London Insects Limited Steritech Zak Software

21. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group

22. Wiki site for subgroup use

23. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group 2007 Participating Institutions American Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian Peabody Museum, Harvard University Peabody Museum, Yale University Historic New England - Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center Canadian Museum of Nature Natural History Museum, London Denver Museum of Nature and Science Lower East Side Tenement Museum Insects Limited Zak Software

24. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group 3 rd IPM-WG Meeting 2006

25. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group 2008 Participating Institutions American Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian Museum Support Center Harvard University Herbaria Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center Historic New England - Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities Canadian Museum of Nature Natural History Museum, London Denver Museum of Nature and Science Lower East Side Tenement Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Baltimore Museum of Art Upstate History Alliance Insects Limited Zak Software

26. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Identification Aids Subgroup American Cockroach Periplaneta americana Black Larder Beetle Dermestes ater Brownbanded Cockroach Supella longipalpa Casemaking Clothes Moth Tinea pellionella Cigarette beetle Lasioderma serricorne Drugstore Beetle Stegobium paniceum Firebrat Thermobia domestica German Cockroach Blattella germanica Hide Beetle Dermestes maculatus Larder Beetle Dermestes lardarius Odd Beetle Thylodrias contractus Oriental Cockroach Blatta orientalis Silverfish Lepisma saccharina Vodka Beetle Attagenus smirnovi Warehouse Beetle Trogoderma variabile Webbing Clothes Moth Tineola bisselliella White shouldered House Moth Endrosis sarcitrella Worst Offenders

27. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Pest ID Fact Sheets

28. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Standards & Best Practices Subgroup Policy & Procedure Templates Policy and Procedure Documents

29. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Standards & Best Practices Grid

30. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Data Collection Subgroup Z-Pest Database Database Field List

31. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Treatment Subgroup Treatment fact sheets and case studies

32. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Visualization Subgroup Programs for pest mapping

33. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Web Resources Subgroup Online resources Bibliographies

34. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group PowerPoint training presentations

35. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group What were we thinking?

36. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Tips for collaborative work Draw on expertise of all stakeholders Open to the community Flexible organizational structure Transparent work process Recruit good leadership Set realistic goals & show progress Follow up on commitments Take very good minutes

37. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group Ready to toss it all away?

38. & The Integrated Pest Management Working Group THANK YOU The members of the Integrated Pest Management Working Group and their institutions AMNH – Division of Vertebrate Zoology Leon Zak, Zak Software Pat Kelley, Insects Limited Pest images courtesy of Alex Wild www.myrmecos.netwww.myrmecos.net