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The ABCs of School and Childcare Pest Management

Cornell Integrated Pest Management's blog about IPM for schools and daycare centers.

BMPs

A mosaic of pictures showing winged ants, a gray and yellow spider on a web, a mole, a black, yellow, and orange wasp over a sand pile, and a bumblebee on a yellow flowering plant.

Investing in IPM – 2026 What’s Bugging You Webinars

a large poison ivy plant

Weeds at the Door

photo of a closeup of a green apple covered in water droplets with a portion of the stem showing

The NYS School Environmental Health Conference

4 red and black insects on a brick wall

For some pests, your school is their winter getaway

Disinfectants Safety

A picture of a school with a banner that says "School is Open Humans Only" with a bedbug, cockroach, tick looking at the sign. The tick is holding a mouse pull toy and the cockroach is holding a coronavirus shaped balloon. Includes the logos for NYSIPM, Cornell AgriTech, and USDA: NIFA

School IPM 2020 Conference

photo of Bobby Corrigan wearing a hard hat, holding a clipboard in one hand and a flashlight in the other pointing out a rusted wall grid plate with a hole large enough for a rat to fit through.

Back to School – Keeping the Rodents Outside

School IPM 2020: Where We’ve Been and What’s Next Conference – POSTPONED

It's in there, and a quick inspection could have saved me a lot of itching.

Poison Ivy – Don’t scratch

The ABCs of Ticks on School and Childcare Grounds

IPM is as broad as our selection of photos. On farms, vineyards, orchards; in schools, nursing homes, playgrounds; in your own home, lawn, or garden—IPM is foundational to sound, careful, economical ways of dealing with pests.