A quarterly summary of Extension IPM activity highlights.
2023
Quarter 2
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Highlights include:
- “Urban Legend” Carrie Foss Retires
- Hop Outreach from Yakima to Slovenia
- Small Farms Learn about Sweetpotatoes and Flea Beetles
- Columbia Basin Potato and Vegetable Outreach
- Viticulture Intern Boot Camp and Other Grape News
- Field Tours, Podcasts, and Blog Posts for Grain Growers
- Biodegradable Plastic Mulch Presentations and Publications
Quarter 1
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Highlights include:
- Honey bees thrive after refrigerated storage
- Resources for wheat and small grain growers
- Onion storage results and potato seed trials
- Regional and national alfalfa seed and hop outreach
- New and integrated approaches to grapevine leafroll
- CM, WCFF, SWD, BMSB and more tree fruit pests
- Small farm resources and a sweetpotato trial
- Biodegradable plastic mulch in raspberries?
- Drumroll, please: New Hortsense website!
2022
Quarter 4
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Highlights include:
- In-state and international IPM outreach
- Entomological societies “JAM” with joint meeting
- Spotted lanternfly videos produced
- Wheat Academy and podcasts for grain growers
- BDMs aid in IPM and crop success
- AgWeatherNet expands on Olympic Peninsula
- Nematodes, rootstocks are hot topics in grapes
- Focus on seedcorn maggot control
Quarter 3
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Highlights include:
- Rootstocks a key topic in wine grapes
- On-farm outreach to Olympic Peninsula
- Biodegradable mulch degradation
- Onion and potato field days
- IPM resources for wheat growers
- Hands-on IPM education for hop growers
- Orchardists learn about pollinators
- Videos focus on emerging spotted lanternfly
Quarter 2
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Highlights include:
- Onion and potato IPM alerts
- Outreach in grape, mint, hop
- Resources for wheat growers
- Second edition grape IPM guide released
- Downy mildew and millipedes on small farms
- Biodegradable mulch newsletter and article
- Grape newsletter, webinar, boot camp
- Nationwide SWD group charts course
- Understanding exotic hornets
Quarter 1
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Highlights include:
- New videos for urban applicators and citizen scientists
- Plastic mulches may improve raspberry success
- Conference presentations in hop, mint, alfalfa seed
- Codling moth summit held in February
- Wheat and barley grower blog posts and podcasts
- More resources for wine grape growers
- New tools for small farms in western Washington
- Potato, onion, pea, and seed crop outreach
2021
Quarter 4
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Highlights include:
- Indoor storage, mite control to protect bees
- Winter resources for small grain growers
- Enhanced IPM in potatoes
- Grape grower resources
- Biodegradable mulch in organic veggies
- Sustainability training for landscape pros
- Preventive IPM tactics for small farms
- Biological and mechanical control in tree fruits
- IPM outreach to mint and grape growers
Quarter 3
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Highlights include:
- New role for weed scientist Lyon
- Outreach in onion and potato
- Small farm outreach to individuals and groups
- BMSB and beneficials awareness promoted
- Summer outreach for grape growers
- Melon grafting journal article published
- Video on diagnosing urban plant problems
- Bee team addresses hornets, varroa, and more.
Quarter 2
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Highlights include:
- Pollinator fact sheets for home gardeners
- Tracking colony movement for better bee health
- Novel grape IPM includes use of UV-C light
- Vegetable grafting web portal updated
- Small grains team releases variety selection app
- Resources for tree fruit growers now include Twitter
Quarter 1
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Highlights include:
- IPM outreach in mint, hops, alfalfa seed, wine grapes
- Pocket-sized, English/Spanish, pictorial hop IPM guide
- Watermelon grafting advances for disease resistance
- Podcasts, blogs, presentations, and videos for wheat IPM
- Hortsense updates for home gardeners
- Rootstocks aid IPM in Washington vineyards
- Break out the popcorn: New entomology videos!
IPM Activities
Subscribe to quarterly summary of Integrated Pest Management activities across the state.
2020
Quarter 4
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Highlights include:
- Tree fruit outreach in pears and IPM of codling moth & stink bugs
- Benefits of pruning in urban IPM
- Focus on herbicide resistance in small grains
- Watermelon grafting articles published
- Onion grower survey shows high IPM adoption
- IPM outreach at grape and mint conferences
- New video explains phylloxera monitoring
Quarter 3
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Highlights include:
- 2nd edition pocket hop guide
- Progress against grape phylloxera
- Summer season potato and onion IPM
- Promoting wine grape vineyard health
- Watermelon grafting in the news
Quarter 2
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Highlights include:
- New IPM tools launched for small grains
- Wine grape outreach on nematodes, PM, Botrytis and more
- Vegetable grafting article published in Hortscience
- Stink bug and moth management in tree fruits
- Bumble bee citizen-scientist training goes virtual
- Key hop pests addressed in Best Practices e-meeting
- Issues with honey bees in blueberry
Quarter 1
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Highlights include
- Grafting as a tool in Verticilium wilt management
- The role of pruning in a landscape IPM program
- Novel techniques in pear psylla, BMSB, and codling moth management
- Viticulture program earns awards for outreach excellence
- Arthropod IPM in wine grapes, hops, and alfalfa seed
- Indoor storage for honey bee hives?
- New tools for weed management in small grains
- Mint research updates delivered
- IPM outreach and surveys for potato and onion growers
2019
Quarter 4
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Highlights include
- Nationwide WERA and IR-4 connections reinforce IPM
- Viticulture topics include phylloxera and fungicide resistance
- Focus on onion thrips and seed corn maggots
- 2019 Wheat Academy draws full house
- Vegetable grafting in español and in the news
- 2020 Crop Protection Guide for Tree Fruits underway
- New urban IPM video emphasizes minimizing pesticides
- A new home planned for WSU’s bee program
Quarter 3
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Highlights include
- Hop outreach includes interaction with brewers
- Onion events reach growers and researchers
- Weed science field tour in the Palouse
- Alternatives for pear pest management explored
- New video will train landscape professionals
- Vegetable grafting explained to multiple audiences
- Irrigated Ag REC releases annual report
Quarter 2
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Highlights include
- Honey bee team wins interdisciplinary award
- Tree fruit team active in Entomological Society of America
- Outreach in hops, onions, alfalfa seed, and wine grapes
- PNW Bumble Bee Atlas project conducts training
- Potato field day looks at Lygus, viruses
- Spring edition of Viticulture and Enology Extension News
- Vegetable grafting outreach to students and professionals
Quarter 1
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Highlights include
- Weed control tips from Australia
- Mint root borer monitoring and management
- Winter wine grape meetings focus on fungicides
- Lygus problems in potatoes
- Burrowing shrimp plague oyster beds
- Orchard conference highlights stink bugs and more
- Teaching vegetable grafting to K-12 educators
- IPM training for urban applicators
2018
Quarter 4
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Highlights include
- Tree fruit presentations: Drones, Invasive Species
- Science Café teaches vegetable grafting
- Tackling tipworm in cranberry
- Landscape pros trained in IPM
- Fungus may be a tool in beekeeping
- Annual Wheat Academy held in Pullman
- Onion growers surveyed use IPM resources
Quarter 3
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Highlights include
- Hortsense adds “Natural Enemies & Pollinators”
- Podcasts for wheat and grain growers
- Using drones for sterile insect release
- Hop council tours IAREC
- Summer outreach in grapes
- Onion team wins USDA award
- Aquatic crop IPM updates
- Monitoring mites for honey bee health
- Increasing awareness of vegetable grafting
Quarter 2
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Highlights include
- IPM activities in the news
- beekeepers learn mite monitoring
- stink bug education for kids
- cranberry IPM activities
- herbicide decision tool for pulse crops
- fungicide resistance workshops in wine grapes
- vegetable grafting tools now available
Quarter 1
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Highlights include
- fungicide resistance in grapes
- vegetable grafting workshop
- onion/carrot/potato IPM
- alfalfa seed and pollinator protection
- mustard weed control in small grains
- hop IPM outreach
- shellfish IPM tours
- Ramorum Blight awareness
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug awareness for homeowners