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Mississippi State IPM Blog Lands Extension Team a Regional Award
Coffee senna hasn’t hit the national farm news yet as the latest “worst weed,” but on July 26—the same day that the members of the team that maintains the Mississippi Crop Situation Blog were receiving...
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Friends of IPM Award Program Includes Graduate Students for First Time
The 2013 Friends of Southern IPM competition for the Southern IPM Center introduced a major change of its own—the first winners of a new competition specifically for graduate students. Masters student...
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Stink Bug Decision Aid Card Measures Up to Big Savings
If you’ve battled stink bugs in the past, you know that trying to manage them effectively can seem like a guessing game. Treating too early or too late means either wasted insecticides or economic...
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Stick it to cankerworms
by Steven Frank, NC State University, winner of the 2013 Friends of IPM Future Leader award Cankerworm caterpillar. Photo: S.D. Frank In spring 2012, a cankerworm outbreak occurred in many North...
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Alabama Insect Pest Survey Documents Prevalent Pests and Gives Growers a...
When kudzu bug started spreading to Southeastern states, Extension entomologists in Alabama wanted to stay a step ahead of it. So to find out what insects were present in the state, Auburn University...
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Florida A&M Student Wins Regional Award for Her Discovery in Small Hive...
Florida A&M Master’s student Saundra Wheeler will receive a Friends of Southern IPM Graduate Student award on April 8 at the 17th Symposium of the Association of 1890 Research Directors in...
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Three Friends of Southern IPM Winners Honored at ESA Southeastern Branch Meeting
Three IPM leaders were honored with Friends of Southern IPM awards on March 5 at the Entomological Society of America’s Southeastern Branch meeting for their outstanding contributions to the field of...
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Friends of IPM Graduate Student winner makes important discovery involving...
Friends of IPM Graduate Student Award winner Jacob Price was a student employee working in the diagnostic lab at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, Amarillo TX when he first encountered Wheat...
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Biological control work lands NCSU assistant professor a regional award
Biological control of pests often depends on a variety of factors. Sometimes predators are successful at reducing pest populations; other times, pest populations outnumber them, or a species that has...
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Friends of Southern IPM Award Nomination Period Opens Today
We are pleased to release the Calls for Nomination for our annual Friends of Southern IPM Award program. This program recognizes outstanding work in IPM in the southern region. We have two kinds of...
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Virginia Tech doctoral student wins regional award for work on grape root borer
Not many of us think about protecting grapevines from insects when we’re enjoying a glass of wine, but Virginia Tech Ph.D. student Jhalendra Rijal has made it his mission to help growers find ways to...
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Virginia Tech masters student wins regional award for inventive bed bug...
Not every Masters student knows what it’s like to live with a bed bug infestation, but Virginia Tech masters student Molly Stedfast has worked with people who do. Since starting her masters project...
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New Orleans pests beware: city’s mosquito, rodent and termite control board...
I’ve written several stories about how IPM changes the environment of a school or building when pests are no longer harassing the people inside the building. I’ve also passed along recommendations from...
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NC State doctoral student wins Friends of Southern IPM Award for work on...
A doctoral student at NC State University will receive a regional award in November for his work on urban tree integrated pest management. NCSU Ph.D. student, Adam Dale, was one of several graduate...
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Auburn University masters student wins award for kudzu bug biocontrol discovery
During some routine dissections of kudzu bugs, Auburn masters student Julian Golec made a discovery that would make life a little easier for Alabama soybean growers. Inside one of the female kudzu bugs...
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From Colombia to the Friends of IPM Award: a Masters’ student’s story
by Luis Aristizabal In December 2006, when I arrived in the USA with the anticipation of working in agricultural sciences I had no idea how difficult it would be to be successful. My first difficulty...
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Louisiana State University student wins Friends of Southern IPM Award for...
Ambrosia beetles perform important nutrient recycling roles in a variety of natural habitats, but when ornamental nurseries border the right type of habitat, the beetles can cause serious economic...
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Nominate a colleague or student for a Friend of IPM award!
Now that the deadline for the IPM Enhancement Grants has passed, why not write a 2-page nomination for a colleague or student to win a Friends of Southern IPM award? The deadline for nominations is...
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Friends of IPM Graduate Student winner makes important discovery involving...
Friends of IPM Graduate Student Award winner Jacob Price was a student employee working in the diagnostic lab at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, Amarillo TX when he first encountered Wheat...
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We are pleased to release the Calls for Nomination for our annual Friends of Southern IPM Award program. This program recognizes outstanding work in IPM in the southern region. We have two kinds of...
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