Integrated Pest Management 24 to 25 Mar 2025 with Jane Thompson Webb

Object and Materials Conservation

Ref: M2D34314

Location: West Dean

£410

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About this course

This workshop will give guidance on how to deal with insect pest problems likely to be encountered in museums, collections, archives and historic houses. It will focus on insects and the damage they cause, together with new information on the detection, monitoring and trapping of pests. The emphasis is on pest-prevention as the key to successful integrated pest management, but this workshop will also evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of physical and chemical control measures.
Practical sessions will include: identification of insect damage and insect pests; carrying out a survey to examine factors which encourage pests; evaluating issues relating to treatment of objects using freezing, heating and anoxia.

Course Description

At the end of the workshop, you will be able to: identify the main insect pests; understand the life cycles of pests and what they eat; identify environmental factors which encourage pests; understand the need for monitoring and the way trap results are used; know the correct course of action to take when pests are found; evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of control options; develop and implement an integrated pest management programme for your collections.

Course Materials

Included

Course handouts
Practical exercise worksheets and answers
Pest identification poster

What students need to bring

Insects for identification
Any case studies on insect pest issues that participants are prepared to share. The issues do not need to be resolved - the group will help to find a solution.

Available to buy

Participants may find it helpful to have a copy of:
"Pests in Houses Great and Small" Pinniger and Lauder, English Heritage, 2018
OR "Integrated Pest Management for Cultural Heritage" Pinniger, Archetype Publications, 2015

Timetable

Arrival Day – this is the first date listed above

Day One

9.45am - Registration
10am - First teaching session
12.30pm - Lunch
5.30pm - Teaching sessions end
6.30pm - Dinner (included for residential students)

Evening working - students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with their tutor's permission and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.

Day Two (Residential students are to vacate their rooms by 10am please)

8am - First teaching session
12.30pm - Lunch
5pm - Course ends

(This timetable is for courses of more than one day in length. The tutor may make slight variations)

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Tutors

Jane Thompson Webb

OMC Course Leader

Jane graduated in Archaeological Conservation from Cardiff University in 1993. After a spell as a self-employed object conservator, she moved into Collection Care. In 2003 Jane became a Conservator (Preventive) at Birmingham Museums Trust and is now Conservation Team Leader. In this post she is responsible for collection care across Birmingham’s nine sites. Jane is an accredited member of Icon and chairs its Care of Collections Group.