Insects Limited Announces Two-Day Museum Pest Workshop

WESTFIELD, Ind. – IPM in museums and historic houses is the focus of the March 11-12 event to be held at Insects Limited's Main Office and Lab, Westfield, Ind.

Description: Integrated Pest Management is now considered an essential component of a well-rounded preventive care policy. Preventing pest damage is better for collections and, over time, more cost effective than treating an infestation. Co-taught by a pest management professional and a conservator, this workshop is appropriate for a range of museum, library, and archive professionals including conservators, facility staff, collection managers, registrars, librarians, and archivists.

Workshop participants will learn to:

About the Instructors:

Pat Kelley, President of Insects Limited, has over 30 years of experience in professional pest management. He is a Board-Certified Entomologist with a MS in Entomology from the University of Nebraska. He currently heads the IPM strategies for several large museums and is a consultant to the museum industry on pest management issues performing training and lecturing for museums and historic houses all around the United States and Europe. He is the Chair of the Identification Aids subgroup for the Integrated Pest Management Working Group. and co-author of a chapter on Pheromones in the Mallis Handbook of Pest Control, 10th Ed.