page_title: Museum integrated pest management
section_title: Dirty dozen
hierarchical_section_title: Museum integrated pest management / Dirty dozen
caption_attribution_description: English: Stegobium paniceum
context_page_description: Museum integrated pest management is the practice of monitoring and managing pest and environmental information with pest control methods to prevent pest damage to collections and cultural heritage. Preserving cultural heritage is the ultimate goal for most museum collection personnel. Museum pests come in many different forms: insects, mites, rodents, bats, birds, and fungi and the two most common types are insects and fungi. It is widely recommended that every museum have some form of pest control in place and monitoring system to protect their collection and that museums review their storage and museum facilities to determine how to best control and prevent pest infestations while utilizing an Integrated Pest Management plan.
context_section_description: The "Dirty Dozen" are the top offenders within a museum and an IPM program must take all of these pests into account.
caption: Stegobium paniceum bl
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