Museums after quarantine threaten the insects
ARTinvestment.RU   27 июля 2020

First about the threat to their collections, said the Museum professionals of the UK

While museums all over the world gradually open the doors for visitors and plan of salvation from the economic consequences of the pandemic, Museum workers in the UK reported on the new attack, potentially threatening the safety of the collections. Her name — uncontrolled expansion of pests in storages and museums.

the causes of this dangerous situation is called quarantine and isolation under which the country lived for some time. The main factors that contributed to the spread of insects that are vacant for a long period of space, warm weather, established in the UK in the spring, and the absence in the workplaces of the staff, which could closely monitor the condition of collections. To help museums, Historic society of England has established a special extraordinary Commission in the framework of the development of museums in the South-Запада (South West Museum Development Programme).

"Museums are concerned that during the quarantine probably infected by pests has increased greatly. The main threat is that the period of spring activity of insects (when the pests lay eggs) every year comes early, and obviously, this year it coincided with the introduction of quarantine" — results newspaper the Art Newspaper the words of the expert of Department of nature conservation this program Helena Jeske.

Experts believe that today the greatest danger is represented by clothes moths and carpet beetles, their population has increased greatly. And a separate threat, according to entomologist David Pinniger collaborating as a consultant with numerous museums on the issue of insects-вредителей, is quickly spreading across London museums a new species of silverfish (or woodlice), are known as "grey silver". Silverfish prefer dark and humid places, they feed on foods of vegetable origin containing starch or polysaccharides; their diet might include sugar, flour, glue, book cloth, paper, photographs, starch-containing tissue. Thus, the number and types of endangered objects multiplied.

for the First time about the threat of the spread of Serebryano talked about in 2015, but this year the problem has reached a new level.

the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova, AI

Sources: theartnewspaper.com, ru.wikipedia.org