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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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March 25, 2020

(repost from June 2015) We're sharing this blog post again for its timeliness With so many schools shut down, it's a great time to target those hard to get to places...

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...

September 11, 2018

“A word is worth a thousand pictures, if it is the right word Risk is the right word” – Michael Hoff, PhD When a problem presents itself, the first step should often be to...

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...

December 14, 2017

Oh, the weather outside is frightful But a week off from school is delightful And since cleanup was incomplete School pests eat, breed and eat, breed and eat – Tortured...

November 6, 2017

Raccoons defecate in communal sites, called latrines Raccoon feces usually are dark and tubular and have a pungent odor - from Raccoon Latrines: Identification and...

July 12, 2017

I know that vegetables are not really vindictive, but it sounds crazy to talk about them as a burning hazard There are a number of plants whose sap can cause serious chemical...

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...

June 9, 2016

"I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods" - Jeff...