On March 31, 2021, the Northeastern IPM Center hosted the latest installment of the Northeast IPM Research Update Conference.
The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) has named Tracy Leskey among its Scientist of the Year honorees.
Although efforts to develop management techniques to control the invasive spotted lanternfly (SLF) are well underway, as expected, the pest’s presence and influence have continued to spread.
A Northeastern IPM Center-funded project has given New England beekeepers better tools and resources for combating a parasite causing significant bee losses.
Cornell University is offering a Master Beekeeper Program certificate through eCornell, the university’s online-learning subsidiary.
There are 20,000 bee species in the world—4,000 of them in the United States and an estimated 420 in New York. Amongst all the bees out there, who is really doing the pollinating?
This invasive hornet’s threat to humans may be overhyped, but the danger to pollinators is very real.
SLELO PRISM has developed an illustrated guide that provides an overview of some of the pollinators you may want to attract to your garden.
In 2015, New York’s state government assembled a pollinator task force to address declines in native pollinator populations.
The December 2020 issue of IPM Insights is now available as a downloadable PDF.
A population of spotted lanternfly (SLF) has been found in Ithaca, NY, just off the Cornell University campus.
The Northeastern IPM Center has announced the recipients of its IPM Partnership Grants for 2020.
Carpet beetles are like bed bugs in that they are very tiny and hard to find. The difference is, bed bugs bite. Carpet beetles do not.
One of the main and most well-known benefits of fungi is that they help break down and recycle organic material, making nutrients available for new life. But that is just one part of their multifaceted role in the broader ecosystem.
StopPests in Housing has released three pest-specific resources to help share the IPM message with multifamily housing residents.
Alejandro Calixto, formerly head of the Florida Research Center for Corteva Agriscience, is the new director of the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program (NYSIPM).
Users of herbicides containing paraquat—the active ingredient in Gramoxone® and Firestorm® herbicides—need to be aware of recent label changes and new training requirements.
Along with the increased use of disinfectants and sanitizers during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in adverse health effects from the misuse of these products. There have also been several fraudulent products that potential applicators should be aware of.
The October 2020 issue of IPM Insights is now available as a downloadable PDF.
The Northeast School IPM Working Group received a Northeastern IPM Center Partnership Grant in 2013 to develop a set of best-management practices for safe, effective school IPM, and to build a new website to host them and make them widely available.