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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.

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October 17, 2019

Learning never exhausts the mind -Leonardo da Vinci One of the key tenants of IPM is knowing your pests, or potential pests, and risks Learning opportunities become a valuable...

August 1, 2019

"Lewis Ziska, one of the lead scientists on the six-year study in a forest at Duke University, found that with increased atmospheric CO2 we get bigger, stronger, leafier poison...

November 8, 2018

Recently members of the NYS IPM Program met in Albany as part of a joint meeting of the Clean, Green, and Healthy Schools Steering Committee and the Statewide School IPM...

September 4, 2018

Are you interested in turfgrass management Especially as it relates to sports fields Then the ShortCUTT (Cornell University Turfgrass Times) newsletter, written by Associate...

February 12, 2018

"Coming together is a beginning Keeping together is progress Working together is success" --Henry Ford Bed bugs in schools are an issue that is not going to disappear We have...

August 16, 2017

Worldwide, rodents carry approximately ten diseases, most of which we've never heard of Centuries ago, 'the Plague' spread via flea bites from infected rats Today, most diseases...

June 1, 2017

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” -  Benjamin Franklin Calling all school, parks, and sports turf managers and lawn care providers! You have two chances to...

March 10, 2017

  “Springtime is the land awakening The March winds are the morning yawn” - Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You The first athletic...

December 20, 2016

"It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready" - Sarah Kay Winter has officially set in with temperatures in the single or even negative digits It might seem a bit late...

November 29, 2016

Thank you to Janet Hurley, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, for her dedicated effort to progress school IPM and for allowing us to use her post In 2014, a number of...