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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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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...

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...

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...

March 2, 2016

A chemical smell wafting through an upstate middle-school classroom last fall ended up sending six students to the hospital What happened A member of the custodial staff...

March 27, 2015

The IPM Resources menu on the Best Management Practices for School IPM website provides 'tools' to help practitioners, experienced or new, practice IPM And that's the...

January 15, 2015

A New York law essentially banning pesticide use on the grounds of schools and day care centers has been full effect since 2011 The letter of the law states: No school or day...