The mission of the New York Invasive Species Awareness Week (ISAW) is to promote knowledge and understanding of invasive species and the harm they can cause by engaging citizens in a wide range of activities across the state, and empowering them to take action to help stop the spread. While we won’t be able to…Continue Reading It’s New York Invasive Species Awareness Week
World BEE Day 2020
Protecting bees and other pollinators has become an important social issue. But beekeeping, and the 20,000 species of bees worldwide, have been providing livelihoods, much of our food supply, and important biodiversity for thousands of years. Today, we help celebrate the first official World Bee Day as proclaimed by the U.N. through their food and…Continue Reading World BEE Day 2020
Our 2018-2019 Annual Report: #5 Pollinator Habitat, and NEWA
If You Build It, Will They Come? Dwindling bee numbers is a problem. The question is not should we protect pollinators and create habitat, but how? What’s the best method? The most economical? The best bee habitats—made up of plants of varying sizes and bloom times—are easy on the eye. They’re also excellent real estate…Continue Reading Our 2018-2019 Annual Report: #5 Pollinator Habitat, and NEWA
Our 2018-2019 Annual Report: #2 Hummingbirds as Partners, and Rodent Exclusion
Birds and Berries and Bugs, Oh My! (Above) Hummingbirds can capture insects out of thin air, a practice known as hummingbird hawking. We found that this carnivorous habit may actually be reducing SWD numbers in berry plantings. While growers consider the option of ‘employing’ these partners in IPM, gardeners and homeowners can also encourage hummingbird…Continue Reading Our 2018-2019 Annual Report: #2 Hummingbirds as Partners, and Rodent Exclusion
Our 2018-2019 Annual Report: #1 Director’s Report, and a Look at 30 Years of Grape IPM
(Above) Two splendid September days saw many visitors to our Open House and Twilight Field Day. Master Gardeners, growers, and researchers chatted with NYSIPM staff about our Christmas tree research and wildflower plots. Can establishing pollinator and natural enemy habitat also reduce pest problems? We’re finding out. Project Leaders: Amara Dunn, Elizabeth Lamb, Brian Eshenaur….Continue Reading Our 2018-2019 Annual Report: #1 Director’s Report, and a Look at 30 Years of Grape IPM
It’s Bat Appreciation Day
The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings. – John Gay Bats are one of those creatures that instill fear in people. (Thanks, Hollywood.)…Continue Reading It’s Bat Appreciation Day
Pollinator Protection Resources
More and more homeowners and small-gardeners are choosing to reduce or end their use of pesticides. Not just for the health of their family and pets, but to reduce the risk of harming pollinators. Growers and farmers have multiple reasons to reduce pesticide use: reduced cost, reduced health risk to their families and employees,…Continue Reading Pollinator Protection Resources
NEWA Announces Partnership with Onset Corporation
Dan Olmstead and The New York State IPM Program at Cornell University are pleased to announce that Onset Corporation has joined the NEWA family and will be partnering to integrate HOBO® weather station data used by growers for use with insect pest and plant disease decision support tools at http://newa.cornell.edu. The HOBO RX3000 Combining HOBO…Continue Reading NEWA Announces Partnership with Onset Corporation
Blogs as Varied as our Program…
The THINK IPM Blog tries to cover the breadth of our program but if you know anything about us, it’s that pest management covers much more than cockroaches and dandelions. Here’s the rest of our blogs: BIOCONTROL BYTES The goal of this blog is to inform New Yorkers who are trying to control pests –…Continue Reading Blogs as Varied as our Program…
Happy National Weed Appreciation Day!
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ahhh, the weed. Despised by many, almost to the point of violence. Once, while…Continue Reading Happy National Weed Appreciation Day!