We promote and fund integrated pest management for environmental, human health, and economic benefits.
We promote and fund integrated pest management for environmental, human health, and economic benefits.
Kathy Murray, IPM program coordinator for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (DACF); and Maggie Lewis, PhD candidate in the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Entomology, have been named recipients of the Northeastern IPM Center’s Outstanding Achievements in IPM Award for 2020.
The Northeastern IPM Center has announced the recipients of its IPM Partnership Grants for 2021.
New issue papers discuss role of IPM in combating resistance and invasive species, safeguarding food supply, and minimizing economic losses.
Do you have IPM-related news or an IPM story to tell? Do you have high-quality photos of pests, pest damage, pest-management methods, or people demonstrating IPM practices?
The June 2021 issue of IPM Insights is now available as a downloadable PDF.
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.