Pest Management

  • ‘Integrated Pest Management for Cultural Heritage‘, David Pinniger, Archetype 2015.
  • ‘Integrated Pest Management for Collections‘, Suzanne Ryder and Amy Crossman, Archetype 2022.
  • Mound, L. 1989. Common Insect Pests of Stored Food Products: A Guide to their Identification. Economic Series No. 15. London: British Museum (Natural Histo-ry).
  • Mourier, H. and Winding, O. 1986. Collins Guide to Wildlife in House and Home. London and Glasgow: Collins.
  • O’Connor, J.P. and Ashe, P. 2000. Irish Indoor Insects. Dublin: Town House.
  • Pinniger, D.B. and Lauder, D. 2018. Pests in Houses Great and Small. English Heritage, London, UK.
  • Strang, T and Kigawa, R. 2009. Combatting Pests of Cultural Property. CCI Technical Bulletin 29, Otta-wa, Canada.
  • Yasutomi, K. and Umeya, K. 1995. Household Pests. Tokyo: Zenkoku Nosun Kyoiku Kyokai [in Japanese].
  • Zycherman, L.A. and Schrock, J.R. (eds). 1988. A Guide to Museum Pest Control. Washington, DC: Amer-ican Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and the Association of Systematics Collections.
  • Government of Canada. Strang, T. and Kigawa, R. 2021. Agent of Deterioration: Pests.
  • Nilsen, L. and Rossipal, M. (eds). 2019. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Cultural Heritage: Pro-ceedings from the 4th International Conference. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbete.
  • Querner, P., Pinniger, D. and Hammer, A. (eds) 2013. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Museums, Archives and Historic Houses. Proceedings of the International Conference in Vienna.
  • What’s eating your collection – website to help you understand what integrated pest management is, how to carry it out and how it can help you in your museum
  • MuseumPest.net – IPM information in the USA
  • English Heritage insect pests poster
  • Animals found on traps which are not pests (PDF)
  • Termites Information (PDF)
  • Termites in buildings. R Edwards and A E Mill, The Rentokil Library, 1986
  • Wood Destroying Insects. J W Creffield, CSIRO Australia, 1991
  • Termites in UK Buildings. BRE Digest 443/1, 1999
  • Animals of Mass Destruction – Termites. M Harasymiw, Gareth Stevens NY, 2015
  • Biology and Management of the Formosan Subterranean Termite and Related Species. Nan-Yao Su et al. CAB International, 2023
  • Buczkowski, G. and C. Bertelsmeier. 2017. “Invasive termites in a changing climate: A global perspective.” Ecology and Evolution 7(3): 974–985.