NE PMC On Target
Internal newsletter of the Northeastern Pest Management Center.
Issue 18, December 2002
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NE PMC On TargetInternal newsletter of the Northeastern Pest Management Center. Issue 18, December 2002 |
Northeast
- Connecticut: Invasive species brochure
- Delaware: Advisory Committee meeting report
- GO-IPM:Update on the work group
- Maine:
- School IPM train-the-trainer and school staff training workshops
- Maine IPM Council
- Physical barrier for managing beetle pests in poultry
- On-farm research workshop
- Maryland:
- 2003 Turfgrass IPM Short Course
- 25th Annual Interstate Pest Management Conference
- New England:Apple crop profile online
- New York : School IPM survey results online
- West Virginia: Economic and environmental impacts of insecticides used for apples
National
- American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators Progress Report
- Butterflies and Bt Corn
- Crop Profiles added to national database
- CSREES News
- Plant Sciences update
- Improved Pest Managers email list
- EPA
- EPA Seeks Comments on Endangered Species Protection Program Implementation
- What's New on the Office of Pesticide Programs page
- IPM Symposium
- Methyl Bromide
- NRCS and IPM
International
- No items
About the Insider
topTim Abbey, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, has finished a small brochure that lists commercially-grown invasive ornamental plants and some of the native, non-invasive alternatives. This publication was funded by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge and was done for the Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group. Members of the Connecticut Nursery and Landscape Association helped select the native plants. The publication is available at www.caes.state.ct.us/SpecialFeatures/SpecialFeatures.htm or a hard copy can be obtained by contacting Mr. Abbey at Timothy.Abbey@po.state.ct.us or 860.687.4763.
Delaware Susan Whitney The 2002 meeting of the Advisory Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Information Network for Pesticides and Alternative Strategies - DE was held on November 26. Whitney presented a slide show on Pesticide Registrations which emphasized the differences FQPA has made to registration procedures. Discussion on the relationship of the Delaware Network to the Mid-Atlantic Network and to the NE Center was held. Edith Lurvey, IR-4, gave a presentation on the IR-4 Minor Crop Program. A lively discussion on the problem with soybean mites in Delaware was held. Lurvey asked to be informed of needs in the state.
The "Pesticide Briefs" web page was discussed and suggestions for improvement were made (see below). Future commodities for Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans were discussed: green peppers; carrots; cucumbers and pickles; greens; strawberries; cantaloupe and pumpkin; soybeans; and dry beans. Committee members pointed out that green pepper is not a Kid's Food, carrots may come back, and cucumbers may explode with the new processor. Whitney explained that USDA will not consider grant requests under Crops At Risk or RAMP unless the requesting state has completed a Pest Management Strategic Plan.
The Committee recommended:
- An Advisory Committee should be established for the Mid-Atlantic Information Network to solidify the five states in the region.
- Pesticide Safety Education sessions (formerly Pesticide Applicator Training) should include an on-line lesson in how to use the "Pesticide Briefs" web page.
- Whitney should print a post card with directions for getting on the e-mail list for notification of new postings of "Pesticide Briefs." Whitney should provide extension staff and the Delaware Department of Agriculture with a supply of the post card. The post card should be distributed at grower meetings and added to pesticide applicator mailings made by the Department of Agriculture.
- Key members of commodity groups should be added to the e-mail list for notification of new postings of "Pesticide Briefs."
- Articles on the "Pesticide Briefs" home page should be grouped by category and placed under descriptive headings. Titles of articles should be more descriptive. A category, "Local Scene," should be added to complement the national news. Decisions of the Information Network Advisory Committee could be included in the Local Scene category.
The next Advisory Committee meeting will be held in November ‘03. Commodities for Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans will be discussed. The Committee will assist in evaluation of the Information Network.
Susan Whitney,
Mid-Atlantic Information Network for Pesticides and Alternative Strategies - DE
The group has received over 100 completed surveys on priorities for greenhouse / ornamental IPM in the region. The most came from Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. They will continue to accept surveys until April, coveringr the period when many winter workshops where more surveys will be completed. They will compile the data and prepare a report before our next GO IPM meeting.
Also, a proposal was submitted from several GO IPM members to the Northeast IPM Grants Program. More on that later, if it's successful.
adapted from a report by Margaret Skinner, UVM
GO-IPM page
School IPM train-the-trainer and school staff training workshops were held in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire in November 2002 as part of an EPA-funded tri-state project. Approximately 35 people representing state agencies, cooperative extension and non-profit organizations that will provide IPM consultation services to schools received training in school IPM from Dr. Bobby Corrigan, chair of the National Pest Management Association’s School IPM Committee and internationally recognized expert in structural pest management. An additional 90 staff and administrators from Maine schools participated in a school IPM training workshop conducted by Dr. Corrigan. Two other components of the project are currently underway: development of a school IPM ‘tool-kit’ and school IPM demonstration programs in all three northern New England states.
Maine IPM Council: Thirteen members of newly established Maine IPM Council has been appointed representing stakeholders from a variety of agricultural and other interests. The new Council is charged with identifying priorities and funding sources for expanding and enhancing adoption of IPM across all sectors of pest management and pesticide use statewide.
Physical barrier for managing beetle pests in poultry: It took 79 tubes of latex caulk, 400 yards of plastic film and six people most of a day to apply it, but an experimental physical barrier for managing beetle pests was successfully installed in a Maine commercial poultry barn as part of a study led by Drs. Donald Rutz, Phillip Kauffman, and Keith Waldron from Cornell University and Kathy Murray with the Maine Department of Agriculture to investigate alternatives for managing beetle pests in commercial poultry production. The team plans to measure the effectiveness of the barrier and other means for managing lesser mealworm beetle populations in NY and ME as part of an 3-year NE IPM-funded project.
On-farm research workshop: A workshop focusing on on-farm research is being offered in Portsmouth, NH in February 2003. Contact Chris Reberg-Horton with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension (207-581-2942) for more information.
Kathy Murray, Maine Dept. of Ag.
(Maine's School IPM Page)
2003 TURFGRASS IPM SHORT COURSE Sponsored by the Departments of Entomology, and Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture, the 2003 Turfgrass IPM Short Course will be held in the Plant Sciences Building at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland January 13-16, 2003
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS 4-DAY SHORT COURSE? Lawn Care and Landscape professionals Municipal and County Grounds professionals Public School Grounds professionals
LECTURE TOPICS: IPM Principles and Practices Program Implementation IPM and Pesticide Related Issues Monitoring Technology Turfgrass Selection Soil and Fertility Management Problems Diagnosing Non-Pest Related Problems Insect diagnostics and management Disease diagnostics and management Weed diagnostics and management
LABORATORY TOPICS Hands on Turfgrass Species Identification Turf Disease Diagnostic Software Hands on Turf Weed Identification Hands on Turf Insect (pest and beneficial) Identification
PESTICIDE RECERTIFICATION CREDITS We will be offering re-certification credits for the state of Maryland in the Turfgrass category. We are corresponding with VA and DC and hope to offer re-certification credits for VA and DC also.
REGISTRATION FORM http://www.pest.umd.edu/events/turf_registration.pdf
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Ms. Debbie Wilhoit Telephone: 301-405-3913 e-mail: dw34@umail.umd.edu
25th Annual Interstate Pest Management Conference January 29 and 30, 2003 at the Maritime Institute of Technology in Linthicum, Maryland
For more than two decades, the annual Interstate Pest Management Conference, held at the Maritime Institute of Technology, Linthicum, Maryland, has enjoyed a national reputation. Specializing in structural IPM outreach to industry, academia, and government, the Conference delivers new biological and technical information from the discipline's frontiers. Each year more than 600 participants choose the Interstate for comprehensive training on new technologies in structural integrated pest management. Recertification credits for Conference attendance are approved by 15 states.
Dr. Nancy L. Breisch, Chair of the Interstate for the past decade, and Dr. Barbara L. Thorne, Conference Director, both of the Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, design innovative Conference programs in conjunction with Federal, state, and local regulatory agencies. Presentations from nationally recognized researchers and industry experts cover a diversity of topics, including insect, rodent, and bird pest management and treatment of sensitive facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and restaurants. The goal of the Interstate is to promote the use of quality integrated pest management, enabling the structural pest control industry to translate new biological information and cutting-edge technology into profitable business operations, thereby increasing public safety and satisfaction while substantially reducing pesticide use in and around structures. Since its inception, the Interstate has showcased the practical means of incorporating integrated pest management techniques into day-to-day business practices.
Sandy Sardanelli, UMD
Maryland IPM Program page
The 2002 New England Apple Crop Profile is online . This document is in the process of approval for the national crop profile database.
Glen Koehler, University of Maine, Orono
ProNewEngland page
School IPM survey:The New York State Integrated Pest Management Program at Cornell University recently released the results of a pest management practices survey of public school districts in New York State. Access the report online (PDF download).
Margaret McDaniel; Alan R. Collins; John F. Baniecki; and M. Essam Dabaan.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) has been widely used in apple orchards to reduce the amount of insecticides applied. An important piece of information for IPM is the calculation of Economic Injury Levels (EIL). EIL involves determination of when the benefits of damage prevention exceed the environmental and economic costs of application. In this research, both the economic and environmental impacts of insecticides were computed for apples. This was accomplished by:
EIL = (IC+AC)/(V*DI*K)Where:
M. Essam Dabaan
Mid-Atlantic
Information Network for Pesticides & Alternative Strategies Program
On September 18 AAPSE President Amy Brown published the organization’s progress report. Included in the report are updates on existing and new committees, AAPSE sanctioned presentations to EPA, and the Migrant Worker Interagency Commission, and recognition of outstanding contributions to the agency. The report is available at: http://aapse.ext.vt.edu/archives/02report_to_members09-02.pdf.
from the PSEP Quarterly, Fall 2002
Bill Hoffman, USDA/CSREES PAS Program
Efforts of scientists at seven North American institutions and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture have produced "Butterflies and Bt Corn: Allowing Science to Guide Decisions," as both an attractive Web site and as a hardcopy publication explaining how a mushrooming controversy over colliding interests was resolved. The scientific and public furor was generated by a small, lab-based study in 1999 indicating that caterpillars suffered when forced to feed on Asclepias spp. (milkweed) leaves heavily dusted with Bt-corn pollen, thereby triggering concerns about Bt crops. Attendees at a subsequent workshop on the topic conclusively agreed that credible, science-based facts were needed before any decisions could be made. An international group of some 30 researchers published five papers which, in sum, presented factual evidence that, under actual field conditions, the likelihood of monarch caterpillars being exposed to damaging levels of Bt-corn pollen was low. The Web site is http://www.ars.usda.gov/sites/monarch/ A limited number of copies of the publication are available from: R.L. Hellmich, USDA-ARS Corn Insect and Crop Genetic Research Unit, 110 Genetics Lab, c/o In-sectary, Ames, IA 50011, USA. E-mail: <RHellmich@iastate.edu>.
from the PSEP Quarterly, Fall 2002
Bill Hoffman, USDA/CSREES PAS Program
Now available on all Pest Management Centers sites:
- Louisiana citrus
- Delaware wheat
- Florida sweet corn
- Oregon blackberry
Wilfred Burr,
USDA Office of Pest Management Policy
The CSREES Plant Sciences Update is now available online in a downloadable PDF format: http://www.reeusda.gov/1700/whatnew/newsinfo.htm. CSREES has used the Plant Sciences Update document to brief land-grant university and government partners for quite some time with a “do not distribute” message. Persistent requests for this type of this information that could be duplicated and shared with colleagues led CSREES to produce a duplication approved format. The current vision for the Plant Sciences Update is not a newsletter, but a single dynamic document that will be updated regularly. The current issue has articles on the $43.5 million recently awarded to states for agricultural homeland security, e-grant information, and a new chemical use data Web site.
The new and improved Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension (CSREES) Pest-Managers e-mail distribution list is now up and running. The purpose of this distribution list is to share information about CSREES’ pest management programs, including Requests for Applications and newsletters. The list has been expanded to include a broader cross-section of those involved with IPM research and extension programs. The Pest-Managers list now includes those involved with the Pesticide Safety and Education Program (PSEP), Pest Management Centers, the Integrated Pest Management Program (IPM), and the Minor Crop Pest Management Program (IR-4). In addition, applicants and others associated with CSREES’ Plant and Animal Systems competitive grants programs and other interested parties have been added. If there are others who are interested in being added to the distribution list, please have them contact us with their names and e-mail addresses so that we may add them. If you have an e-mail address change, please contact Rashele Maclin (rmaclin@reeusda.gov) so we can update.
from the PSEP Quarterly, Fall 2002
Bill Hoffman, USDA/CSREES PAS Program
EPA Seeks Comments on Endangered Species Protection Program Implementation
The EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs is requesting comments on the implementation of its Endangered Species Protection Program. This program may be of interest to pesticide users, and farmers. The comment period for this notice is 90 days.
The Notice can be viewed at the following site: http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2002/December/Day-02/e30463.htm
As materials that will further explain the Federal Register Notice are developed, they will be passed on to the group.
Audrey E. Moore,
USEPA Region 2Office of Pesticide Programs Update
What's New on the OPP Web Page as of Dec. 5, 2002:
(12/02) Pesticide Product Information System (PPIS) updated December 2, 2002
(11/14) Registration Division Work Plan for the Registration of Conventional Pesticide
(11/01) Pesticide Product Label System (PPLS) updated November 1, 2002.
The Fourth National Integrated Pest Management Symposium/Workshop will be held April 8-10, 2003 at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis, IN. The theme of the symposium is “Building Alliances for the Future of IPM.” The symposium is an exciting opportunity to learn about the latest developments in agricultural and urban IPM and to share your IPM experiences with others. It will include more than 60 breakout sessions (workshop, debate, and presentation formats) encompassing almost all aspects of IPM, as well as plenary speakers talking about their experiences in building alliances. In addition, several IPM-related organizations are convening their meetings before or after the symposium, making this a full week of IPM in Indianapolis. More information is available at http://nautilus.outreach.uiuc.edu/conted/conference.asp?ID=244.
almost common knowledge!
The brochure “Phase-out of Methyl Bromide – Application Deadlines for Critical Use” is available online through the Western Region Integrated Pest Management Center. Available at http://www.wrpmc.ucdavis.edu/NewsAlerts/methylbromide.pdf, the brochure contains: Facts about methyl bromide use in the United States, The methyl bromide Critical Use Exemption Process for 2003 Applicants, and A list of bullet points that methyl bromide users need to know.
from the PSEP Quarterly, Fall 2002
Bill Hoffman, USDA/CSREES PAS
Program
IPM Coordinators should be aware of the opportunities presented by increases in Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) funding to assist in the implementation of IPM on farms. Under the recently approved Farm Bill, NRCS funding possibilities for reimbursing farmers for the practice of IPM have greatly increased. Many of IPM staff are familiar with EQIP - EQIP funding has increased to $6.1 billion. Other NRCS programs with many more billions of dollars can also reimburse farmers for the practice of IPM.
In New York we have met with our state NRCS staff. They have received an "IPM standard" called 595 from the federal NRCS group. Each state NRCS can then modify the 595 standard to meet their particular needs. NRCS staff will be looking for expertise in IPM - an area in which they do not have extensive staff expertise. They recognize landgrant IPM programs as the prime source of expertise in IPM to help them refine the 595 standard and "set the bar" for grower reimbursement.
While offering such expertise may expend IPM resources, there may also be opportunities within each state to request funding from state agencies in order to ensure access by the state's farmers to the potentially large amounts of money being offered for the practice of IPM. There may be opportunities to have NRCS reimburse farmers for the purchase of needed IPM infrastructure or scouting services depending on the particular priorities set in states. There may be opportunities for IPM programs to qualify as technical service providers.
There will be a session at the National IPM Symposium on this topic organized by John Vickery.
We've plagarized (with permission) several items above from the PSEP Fall Quarterly. Several state-specific updates also appear in the quarterly:
- The University of Nebraska Pesticide Education Program recently produced a print publication titled: “Federally Registered Restricted Use Pesticides.” An online version is available at the University of Nebraska “Pesticide Education Resources” Web site (http://PestEd.unl.edu) under “Laws and Regulations for Pesticide Use.”
- The University of Wisconsin recently released a training CD titled: “Interactive Tutorial: Homeowner Solutions.” This for-sale publication can be obtained by contacting Roger Flashinski at raflashi@facstaff.wisc.edu.
- Texas Cooperative Extension at Texas A&M University recently produced two new manuals.Copies can be obtained at http://www-aes.tamu.edu
- “Public Health Related Pest Control – Vector Control and Domestic Rodent Control”
- “Using Pesticides Commercial Applicator Manual Pest Control Category.”
- University of Illinois Extension recently introduced two new self-study CD-ROMs for pesticide applicators.To order, call 1-800-345-6087.
- "Private Applicator"
- "Stored Grain Pest Management."
- The Michigan State University Pesticide Education Program recently released its fifth bulletin in its community IPM series titled: “Molds in the Home - What Should You Do?”
- Washington State University reports that Carrie Foss was promoted to Community IPM Coordinator at Washington State University (Puyallup) on July 1, 2002.
- The Clemson Pesticide Information Program recently posted an interesting reference Web page describing the history of agricultural pest control from 1854 to 1954.
- The District of Columbia has lost a Pesticide Safety Education Coordinator (Bob Hamilton ) but has gained a valuable resource in its state lead agency.
- The University of Maryland Cooperative Extension recently released "Total Crop Management for Greenhouse Production with Emphasis on Integrated Pest Management"
from the PSEP Quarterly, Fall 2002
Bill Hoffman, USDA/CSREES PAS Program
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