The City of New Orleans Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board and the Greater New Orleans Pest Control Association are pleased to announce the return of the Urban Rodent Academy. The two-day, in-person course is designed for pest management, municipal, state, university, public school and food safety personnel involved in rodent control. The event will be held at the New Orleans Mosquito, Termite… Read more »

Results of 10-year project reveal that rewilding areas can boost biodiversity and crop yields Putting farmland aside for nature does not have a negative effect on food security, a study has found. A 10-year project by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology revealed that nature-friendly farming methods boost biodiversity without reducing average yields. Scientists… Read more »

Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animal. Over 1 million deaths per year are attributed to mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya fever. How mosquitoes seek out and feed on their hosts are important factors in how a virus circulates in nature. Mosquitoes spread diseases by acting as carriers of viruses and other pathogens: A… Read more »

The IPM Institute of North America’s community integrated pest management manager, Ryan Anderson, discussed managing toxin-free lawns in a recently published article by Natural Awakenings: Aimée Code has stopped trying to grow roses in her Eugene, Oregon, backyard, where the ground is too muddy for them to flourish. If we stick to plants that do… Read more »

Scientists have been raising growing concerns for decades over the use of toxic “forever chemicals,” so called because their strong molecular bonds can take hundreds of years to completely break down in the environment. Widely used in consumer products such as cookware and clothing, these substances are turning up everywhere from drinking water to our… Read more »

A California court has ruled that state legislation on endangered species can apply to invertebrates. The decision this week by the Third District Court of Appeal means insects, including four endangered native Californian bumblebee species and the monarch butterfly, will receive much-needed protection under the California Endangered Species Act. “We are celebrating today’s decision that insects and… Read more »

The critical ability of wild bumblebees to keep their colonies at the right temperature is seriously damaged by the weed killer glyphosate, research has revealed. Glyphosate is the most widely used pesticide in history, intended to kill only plants. The harm to bumblebees – vital pollinators – was not identified in regulatory risk assessments, which… Read more »

PORTLAND, N.Y. — During May, members of the Cornell Lake Erie Regional Grape Program set up 7 traps in the region to monitor for the presence of Spotted Lanternfly.  The New York State Integrated Pest Management program has provided both circle traps and sticky band traps to deploy in the area in an effort to… Read more »

The Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA) in partnership with Penn State’s PA IPM program has received a cooperative agreement of $200,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct the Urban Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Technician Training program. The IPM training program’s emphasis is to train local Philadelphia residents in pest control and pest management… Read more »

As part of Northeast SARE’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Strategic Plan, they will be examining their grant programs and procedures and may make structural changes to their grantmaking systems. To accommodate that work, these grant programs may not reopen for preproposals in 2023. Research and Education Grants Typical projects range from $30,000 to $250,000… Read more »