Since the early 1970s, the University of Delaware’s Cooperative Extension Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program has coordinated a statewide insect trapping program—which includes black light traps ...

Public concern over perceived hazards of pesticides, increasing costs of conventional pest control, and legislation such as the Endangered Species Act all serve in their own way to advance the ...

Integrated pest management is a strategy to use a variety of common practices to maintain pest pressure or populations below levels considered damaging to plants or causing economic loss. The most ...

Frank Zalom knows what a bug's life is all about. Zalom, the 2004 winner of the James H. Meyer Distinguished Achievement Award, also knows how to separate the good bugs from the bad ones. Zalom is a ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has allocated more than $500,000 in the sixth funding cycle of the Proactive Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Solutions grant program. The ...

Plant pathologist Heather Kelly (right) works with graduate student Claire Cooke (left) to collect data from row crop disease treatment experiments. Thanks to integrated pest management programs, ...

Work with your pest control partner to identify and eliminate conditions that attract pests. This might mean addressing ...

Children spend a significant part of their lives in school. Pest management is an important part of school safety. Integrated Pest Management is a process of managing pests that replies on prevention ...

Not many people like bugs or rats or weeds. Humans have always dealt with pests .... in their food, in their clothing, on their animals and on themselves. Egyptian mummies had lice attached to hair ...

San Francisco has some of the greenest parks in the nation. And in our fair city, "green" means organic. Back in 1996, the Board of Supervisors passed a demanding ordinance requiring all of our ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is looking for innovative new Integrated Pest Management Solutions to manage a targeted group of pests that may arrive and spread in the state. The ...