Attend one of two Northern California Retail Nursery and Garden Center IPM Workshops this January!
UC IPM is offering two hands-on, train-the-trainer workshops designed especially for retail nursery and garden center employees, managers, owners, and affiliates. Topics will include invasive pests, Asian citrus psyllid and huanglongbing disease, household pests, as well as how to serve your customers' IPM and pesticides needs. Participants will receive materials and resources to bring back and train others in your store and to help you better serve your customers' pest needs.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Oakland Center, CSU East Bay -- Oakland, CA
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
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- Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas
When people think of Thanksgiving, they often think of spending time with family, expressing gratitude for the fall harvest and other things, and for many, turkey. Most people aren't thinking about pests, but UC IPM always is! The pests we are thinking about this Thanksgiving are turkeys.
Wild turkeys.
Wild turkey populations have exploded in some urban areas of California, causing problems in landscapes while they are searching for food, posing traffic hazards when crossing streets or walking in the road, and in some cases, chasing or harassing people. Turkeys can become more aggressive during the breeding season, occasionally even charging, threatening, and acting aggressively toward people.
Prevent problems by...
Bat Week is an annual event to celebrate this small, flying mammal, and what better time to talk bats than at Halloween? Although they are often depicted as spooky, blood-sucking creatures, in reality, most bats eat insects and are helpful to people.
Bats in the Landscape
California is home to over 25 bat species, but most people never see them because they are nocturnal. Bats can be helpful predators in the landscape. For example, did you know that some bats will eat stink bugs, cucumber beetles, mosquitoes, and flies? Or that some bats can eat their body weight in insects every night?
Bats as Pests
Unfortunately, sometimes bats can concern people, especially...
/h2>/h2>Due to low enrollment, the workshop originally scheduled for November 8, 2016 has been rescheduled to January 24, 2017.
This UC IPM hands-on, train-the-trainer workshop is designed especially for retail nursery and garden center employees, managers, owners, and affiliates. The workshop will help retail employees better serve customers and keep them coming back!
New Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Where: Oakland Center, CSU East Bay
Time: 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Cost: $30 per person
UC IPM is offering a one-day, hands-on, train-the-trainer workshop designed especially for retail nursery and garden center employees, managers, owners, and affiliates.
This workshop will help you and your employees gain new skills to better serve customers and keep them coming back!
When: Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Where: Oakland Center, CSU East Bay
Time: 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Cost: $30 per person
- Invasive Pests in California
- Asian...