A quarterly summary of Extension IPM activity highlights.
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
IPM Activities
Subscribe to quarterly summary of Integrated Pest Management activities across the state.
2019
Quarter 4
Read the 2019 Quarter 4 issue
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
Read the 2018 Quarter 1 issue
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