UNIVERSITY PARK, PA, November 13, 2008
/24-7PressRelease/ -- The PA IPM News Fall 2008 edition is now available as a downloadable PDF file from Web site http://resources.cas.psu.edu/ipm/newsletters/fall08.pdf.
In This Issue:
• Reducing Health Risks in Public Housing - Suppression of asthma triggers such as rodents and cockroaches and the pesticides used to treat them is the focus of a new IPM training program to be offered in public housing authorities across the country.
• Uninvited Guests - Stink Bugs
• New Faculty Strengthens Honey Bee Research - Discovering how honey bees and other social insects behave and interact with one another will be the focus of a new faculty member's research in the Department of Entomology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
• Crop Disease Management Reports - The 2008 volume of Plant Disease Management Reports (PDMR) is now available.
• IPM Profile - Fruit Growers Work Together to Reduce Pesticides
• Green Cleaning Web Site Offers Toolkits, Webinars - INFORM's web site at http://www.informinc.org/ contains information on green cleaning, fact sheets about toxic chemicals and human health and offer webinars on topics such as green cleaning for schools.
• New Publication Tackles Growing Problem - An overwhelming resurgence of bed bugs throughout the world is causing alarm, especially in urban areas. A new manual developed from a New York City homeless shelter project includes bed bug prevention and how to control them safely using IPM.
• New Pest Forecasting Network - A new Penn State pest forecasting network brings several major pest forecasting models into one system.
• New Brochures on Invasive Plants - The U.S. Botanic Garden, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Park Service have collaborated on a brochure and wallet guide on invasive plants and non-invasive alternatives, with a focus on the mid-Atlantic region.
• Gardening with Good Bugs Publication - Whether you are a Master Gardener or a home gardener, if you have trouble identifying insects in the garden, the publication Gardening with Good Bugs can help.
• Useful Web Sites and Information
• Coming Events
If you have information you would like to contribute, or would like to be added to our e-mail listserv, please contact Kristie Auman-Bauer, Editor, at (814) 865-2839 or kma147@psu.edu.
About Pennsylvania IPM Program
The Pennsylvania IPM program is a collaboration between the Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture aimed at promoting integrated pest management in both agricultural and urban settings. For more information, contact the program at (814) 865-2839, or Web site http://www.paipm.org. To view our archived news releases, see Web site http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/10.htm.
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