Saving Our Heritage – Pest Management in Museums and Historic Houses

Pinniger, David

doi:10.1564/21oct12

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“…Our results show that monitoring with pheromone traps is an essential part of IPM and allows infested objects and rooms to be found as described in Child and Pinniger (1993), Cox et al (1996), Pinniger (2004), ), Thompson Webb (2011, and . Interpreting the results of traps requires a continuity and consistency of data, if they are to be helpful in finding infestations.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Monitoring with pheromone traps is an important part of IPM and is used to find infestations and solve pest problems (see Pinniger, 2004Pinniger, , 2008Blyth & Smith, 2011;Querner & Simon, 2011;Ryder, 2011;Xavier-Rowe & Lauder, 2011;. The author of this paper has gained practical experience in moth trapping using pheromones over the last six years.…”

Section: Pheromone Trapping Of Webbing Clothes Mothsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It consists of textile fibers, human hair and human skin, mixed with all other fine organic and inorganic materials (fragments of insects, minerals). In the context of insect food, the keratinaceous components, such as human and animal hair, skin, fibers from animal wool, and dead insect parts are all attractive for webbing clothes moths (Titschack, 1922;Crowell & McCay, 1937;Leene, 1965) and other museum pests like Dermestid beetles (Pinniger, 2004(Pinniger, , 2008. The insects need a certain mixture of materials to complete their development and all of these compounds have to be found in their food source.…”

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Linking webbing clothes moths to infested objects or other food sources in museums

Querner

2016

Studies in Conservation

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The webbing clothes moth Tineola bisselliella (Hummel, 1823) is one of the most common museum pests and can be found all over the world. The larvae damages objects made of feather, wool, fur, and other keratinaceous materials. Pheromone traps are important tools in integrated pest management, which allow the detection of infestations and evaluation of their extent. Organic-rich dust (detritus) or other materials of animal origin, such as dead birds, can be an alternative food source for the moths. This paper analyzes monitoring data collected with pheromone traps from six different museums in Vienna and Berlin and tries to differentiate between moths resulting from infested objects or moths coming from other food sources, such as organic-rich dust. Annual totals of moths trapped and catch rate (moths per trap) are important guides for selecting appropriate remedial measures. Long-term data (over six years) enabled us to interpret monitoring results and differentiate between active infestation of objects and cleaning or housekeeping problems. However, detailed knowledge of the site and buildings, availability of high-quality food for the larvae, and lack of regular cleaning are also important factors to consider when interpreting the data.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Pheromone Trapping Of Webbing Clothes Mothsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Linking webbing clothes moths to infested objects or other food sources in museums

Querner

2016

Studies in Conservation

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“…and clothes moths (Lepidoptera: Tineidae), which feed on textiles, fur and leather, beetles that attack wood and furniture, and silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) and woodlice (Porcellio spp.) that damage books and wallpaper [1].…”

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Statistics of insect catch within historic properties

Brimblecombe

Thickett

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Herit Sci

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“…British Museum, Horniman Museum in London, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery), possess specific facilities for low temperature treatments that are often used in case of the arrival of new collections so as to avoid pest introduction (Pinniger, 2010). Entomological collection are also periodically treated with low temperature.…”

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Preliminary observations on the use of low temperatures in the cultural heritage protection

Reguzzi

Gariboldi

Chiappini

2011

J Entomol Acarol Res

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-Each insect species has different temperature optima: the more this parameter deviates from these values the more the insect suffers negative consequences, up to the death. Temperature can be easily editable. Therefore, the application of low temperatures may represent a physical method for the protection of valuable cultural objects, alternative, for example, to chemical ones. In this paper we report laboratory tests results, carried out on Trogoderma inclusum LeConte (Coleoptera: Dermestidae), a species harmful to leather items such as bindings of books and mummies, in order to reach its control by applying low temperatures. The tests were conducted using specimens obtained from laboratorybreeding blocks maintained at 27 ± 2°C and 75 ± 5% R.H., in a temperaturecontrolled room of the Institute of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Piacenza. The aim of the tests was to determine the time necessary to obtain the total mortality of the different instars of development at temperatures of -10°C and -20°C. The insects, in the various instars of development of egg, larva, pupa and adult, were treated with low temperatures in two different ways: -inserting the Petri dishes containing the insects directly in the freezer without any protection, in order to obtain an immediate lowering of the temperature, and -inserting the Petri dish in a niche carved in an old book so that the lowering of the temperature is gradual. In some cases the insects were kept at +4°C for a time before the test to determine whether exposure to low temperature before treatment could induce a resistance to it. The results show that the method can be validly applied for cultural heritage objects protection, attacked by the species concerned.

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Saving Our Heritage – Pest Management in Museums and Historic Houses

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Linking webbing clothes moths to infested objects or other food sources in museums

Linking webbing clothes moths to infested objects or other food sources in museums

Statistics of insect catch within historic properties

Preliminary observations on the use of low temperatures in the cultural heritage protection

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