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Pest Management Information

Conservation OnLine Pest Management Links Page

Ransom Center Approaches to Insect Problems in Paper and Books

National Park Service Conserve-O-Grams (PDF Documents)
          Controlling Insect Pests: Alternatives to Pesticides
          Monitoring Insect Pests with Sticky Traps
          Anoxic Microenvironments: A Treatment for Pest Control
          An Insect Pest Control Procedure: The Freezing Process

Integrated Pest Management – A guide for museums, libraries and archives (PDF document) from The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK. Integrated pest management (IPM) describes the pest control methods that do not rely on the regular and systematic use of pesticides. This publication describes how the main principles of IPM - monitoring, discouraging pests, modifying the environment and targeting treatments.

Smithsonian Museum Care Institute IPM Checklist for Planning & Implementing Pest Control on Art & Artifact Collections

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 site hosts an email discussion group for Integrated Pest Management.

Pest Identification

Urban Entomology by Walter Ebeling

Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources

Museum Pest Identification and the 'Dirty Dozen' of Museum Pests

The Ohio State University guide to insects and pests

What's That Bug? is specifically for the identification of bugs.