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| Landscape Integrated Pest Management & Habitat Plants for Beneficial Insects | ||
 Habitat planting of annuals for attracting beneficial insects to provide pollination and pest management services. |
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT 'IPM' manages insect pests and dieases in the landscape by using economically and environmentally sustainable practices to avoid pest problems. If chemical insecticides are needed, least toxic chemistries and products with a lower environemental persistence are selected. The goal of IPM is to prevent pests from becoming unmanageable. By combining several complimentary strategies such as pest scouting/monitoring, cultural, mechanical, or biological management actions, pests can be maintained at a balanced level within the enviroment |  Syrphid fly visting a blue cornflower (above) and a bee visiting a cosmos (below)  |
| News & Events | ||
Attract & Recognize Your Pest-fighting Pollinators & Other Beneficial Insects Cheryl Frank Sullivan, Vermont Greenscape Association 27th Annual Turfgrass Conference & Trade Show. West Lebanon, NH. December 3, 2019 Un-Bee-Lievable Beneficials Habitat Planting Awareness Sign 2019 Bringing In Un-BEE-lievable Beneficials Brochure printable version Flower Power at the Hildene Check out some of our research providing habitat for pest fighting pollinators, Aug. 2018 |
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| Presentations Bringing in Un-Bee-lievable Beneficials by Cheryl Frank Sullivan. VNLA/Greenworks Winter Meeting, Feb. 7, 2019 Un-BEE lievable Pollinators - Tri-State Greenhouse IPM Workshop, January 2018 Habitat Plants to Attract Natural Enemies into High Tunnel Crops - New England Vegetable & Berry Conference, December 2017 Bringing In The Other Good Guys: Natural enemies in the landscape presented at the 2017 Tri-State IPM Workshops by Cheryl Frank Sullivan The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: Novel IPM Strategies for "bugs" in the Nursery -Seventh Western Native Plant Conference Dec. 6-8 2016, Vancouver, WA Presenation by Margaret Skinner Factsheets White Grubs (Family Scarabaeidae): A Serious Lawn Pest (June 2023) Identification & Managament of White Grubs in Vermont's Greenscapes (June 2017) Habitat Plantings for Beneficial Insects Creating Gardens for Pollinators: https://protectingbees.njaes.rutgers.edu/ Native Plants & Ecosysyem Services - Michigan State - http://nativeplants.msu.edu/ Penn State: Landscaping to Attract and Conserve Beneficial Insects: http://extension.psu.edu/plants/green-industry/news/2015/landscaping-to-attract-and-conserve-beneficial-insects Pollinator Habitat: USDA - https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/plantmaterials/technical/publications/?cid=stelprdb1044847 Planting for Pollinators- UMass: https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/fact-sheets/pdf/planting_for_pollinators.pdf Pollinator Resources for Greenhouse/Nursery - Prepared by UVM - refer to 2nd to last slide - Habitat Plants to Attract Natural Enemies into High Tunnel Crops Pollinator Partnership: http://pollinator.org/ Selecting Plants for Pollinators Laurentian Mixed Forest Province - http://agriculture.vermont.gov/sites/ag/files/pdf/apiary/Selecting%20Plants%20for%20Pollinators.pdf Selecting Plants for Pollinators Adirondack, New England Mixed Forest - http://pollinator.org/PDFs/Adirondack.rx2.pdf Pest & Natural Enemy/Benefical Insect ID Id of Common Landscape Pests & Beneficial Organisms in Nevada: Univ. of Nevada Coop. Ext. https://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/ag/2006/sp0608.pdf Insects A-Z - Univ. of Minnesota Ext.: http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/insects/find/insects-a-z/ Michigan State University IPM - Landscape & Nursery: http://www.ipm.msu.edu/green_industry/landscape Beneficial Insects in New Hampshire Farms & Gardens: By Dr. Alan T. Eaton, Extension Specialist, Entomology - Univ. of NH Oklahoma Coop. Ext: Conservation Biological Control for the Home Landscape: http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-9649/HLA-6447web.pdf Texas A&M AgriLife Ext - Landscape IPM: http://landscapeipm.tamu.edu/ Texas Master Gardener - Beneficials in the Garden: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/beneficials/index.htm UCONN Turf & Landscape IPM: http://ipm.uconn.edu/pa_turflandscape/ Univ. of Maine Home & Garden IPM: http://umaine.edu/home-and-garden-ipm/green-bug-education-program/ UMASS Ext. Landscape & Nursery IPM: http://ag.umass.edu/landscape Univ. of California IPM - Home, Garden, Turf & Landscape Pests: http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/menu.homegarden.html Univ. of Maryland Ext.- Landscape Managament & Nursery Production: https://extension.umd.edu/ipm/landscape-management-nursery-production Univ. of New Hampshire Coop. Ext. Nursery & Landscape: http://extension.unh.edu/Nursery-Landscape Utah State University Extension - Landscape IPM: http://utahpests.usu.edu/IPM/htm/ornamentals Local Associations GreenWorks VT Nursery & Landscape Assn.: http://greenworksvermont.org/ Maine Landscape & Nursery Assn.: http://www.melna.org/index.html New Hampshire Landscape Assn.: http://www.nhlaonline.org/ New York State Nursery & Landscape Assn. Inc.: http://www.nysnla.com/ New York State Turf & Landscape Assn: http://www.nystla.com/ |
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| This work is supported by the Univ. of VT College of Agriculture; Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Reseaerch & Education Program; the Crop Protection & Pest Management and Extension IPM Program from the USDA National Institute of Food & Agriculture HATCH Multistate Projects & GreenWorks, the VT Landscape Nursery Assn. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors & do not necessarily reflect the view of any funding organizations mentioned. Events are open to everyone without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, identity, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, marital or familial status. | ||
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