The 11th International IPM Symposium: Pest Management in Changing Environments will be held March 3–6, 2025, at Paradise Point in San Diego, California. The symposium has traditionally been the premier global event for presenting and learning about the latest IPM research and strategies. The first discounted registration tier closes 11/22 and the call for posters closes 11/8. Ismahane Elouafi, executive managing director of CGIAR, has been confirmed as keynote speaker.

The largest networking gathering held by the National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) is the National Meeting, held every two years. This year’s meeting will take place the week of September 9–13, in Portland, ME, with an extensive program featuring workshops, tours, and more.

The Northeastern IPM Center’s Outstanding Achievements in IPM Award honors those whose work on IPM in the Northeast deserves special recognition. Professionals (or organizations) and students are eligible. Nominations are now open for the 2025 awards with a submission deadline of Friday, October 25, 2024.

The 11th International IPM Symposium: Pest Management in Changing Environments will be held March 3–6, 2025, at Paradise Point in San Diego, California. The symposium has traditionally been the premier global event for presenting and learning about the latest IPM research and strategies. Early registration deadlines and a call for posters are coming soon.

Although bats are some of the most misunderstood and needlessly feared of the world’s creatures, they are largely beneficial, serving a vital ecosystem role. But they can be nuisance pests and inadvertently create human-health risks. IPM techniques can help redirect them away from human-occupied structures.

Each year, through a competitive RFA process, the Center’s IPM Partnership Grants Program distributes funding to projects that further the mission of the Center, address or identify IPM priorities for the Northeast, and benefit the region at large.

The award honors those whose work on IPM in the Northeast deserve special recognition. Professionals (or organizations) and students are eligible. Nominations come from colleagues, advisors, supervisors, and others familiar with the nominees’ work.

Summarizing activities, programs, and initiatives from throughout the year, the report illustrates how the Center fosters IPM research, adoption, and implementation in the Northeast and beyond through grants and awards, webinars and conferences, publications and other communications platforms, evaluation, and the Center’s StopPests in Housing Program.

The 11th International IPM Symposium: Pest Management in Changing Environments will be held March 3-6, 2025, at Paradise Point in San Diego, California. The symposium has traditionally been the premier global event for presenting and learning about the latest IPM research and strategies.

In sufficient numbers, Canada geese can become nuisance pests or even health and safety risks, but a multi-pronged IPM approach—including some common-sense steps everybody can follow—can greatly reduce their presence and impact.

Through a subaward from the Northeastern IPM Center’s StopPests in Housing Program, a University of Minnesota entomologist studied the local public housing agency’s pest-management practices and devised a few simple recommendations for improving pest control in multifamily housing.

By consuming carrion, turkey vultures play a vital role in the ecosystem. They recycle organic matter and reduce the spread of pathogens by removing carcasses and outcompeting disease-vector pests, and their actions yield some surprising environmental benefits, as well.

Agriculture takes place as part of a complex system of connections and interdependencies with its surroundings. Landscape composition and configuration can greatly influence the abundance and diversity of herbivores, pollinators, and natural enemies of crop pests.

Although it can sometimes be transmitted to mammals—occasionally including humans—avian influenza primarily impacts bird health and mortality, which in turns creates economic challenges for poultry farmers. Biosecurity is a critical IPM approach for limiting this pathogen’s spread and impacts.