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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 last discounted registration tier closes January 15, and although full-price registration remains available until the symposium, the hotel block will be held only until January 28.

Join us February 18, 2025. This talk will cover how NEWA combines high-resolution weather data, predictive models, and user-friendly tools to assess risks like freeze events, disease outbreaks, and crop loss.

Join us on February 13, 2025. Lacey Belanger will detail the creation and coordination of Pest Management Strategic Plans (PMSPs) and Crop Profiles. Guest speakers will share their real-world experience of developing PMSPs and the advantages that have come from them.

Victoria Wallace, extension educator and Connecticut state IPM coordinator, was one of the winners of the Northeastern IPM Center’s 2024 Outstanding Achievements in IPM Award. Wallace provided an overview of the extensive breadth of IPM programming she oversees and helps implement to benefit stakeholders throughout Connecticut and beyond.

Travelers could encounter bed bugs anywhere from hotels to friends’ and family members’ homes. These troublesome biting pests are excellent at hiding and hitchhiking, but some basic knowledge of how to inspect rooms and avoid bringing bed bugs home can help travelers avoid having to deal with infestations of their own.

IPM is critical to food security, and networks of collaboration and partnership are key to successful implementation of IPM. CABI is an international, intergovernmental, not-for-profit whose mission includes “improving people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.”

The Northeast IPM Research Update Conference was recorded December 10, 2024, and featured updates from projects funded by the Northeastern IPM Center’s Partnership Grants Program, Northeast SARE, and USDA-NIFA.

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.