Pests can be damaging, annoying or even dangerous, causing untold damage to treasured possessions and even the structure of buildings themselves. This English Heritage guide focuses on these destructive pests and includes:

- Clear photography to aid identification of pest species

- Practical pest management strategies

- A cutaway drawing of an infested house to locate pest trouble spots

- Information about new pest species found in the UK

- Case studies from various English Heritage properties

- An action checklist

Written by leading heritage experts in clear, accessible language with helpful illustrations, this book provides a concise but comprehensive guide to the key pest species that commonly cause damage when they infest houses and collections. It provides solutions for dealing with them and - crucially - shows you how to stop the pests returning.

The handbook includes: clothes and house moths, carpet beetles, wood-boring insects, other damp-loving pests, detritus feeders and scavengers, new and other invertebrate invaders, flies, rodents and birds.