Museum of Riverside

Welcoming Wildlife, but Limiting Urban Pests

One goal of the Museum’s landscape design is limiting the number of insect and rodent pests in the urban environment surrounding the building, and so avoid use of pesticides.

The Riverside Municipal Museum uses Integrated Pest Management (IPM) methods. IPM combines knowledge of why pests occur with careful housekeeping procedures and tracking of pest occurrences.

• By conserving water, this type of landscape limits the numbers of pests that need plentiful water to survive.
• The types and varieties of plants used here can repel pests while attracting more beneficial wildlife.
• This landscape design includes a 3 foot-wide “plant free” zone against the building’s foundations, preventing buildup of organic debris in those areas.

In 2003,  the Museum received a California EPA/Department of Pesticide Regulation IPM Innovator Award, the first ever awarded to a California museum.

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