Posts Tagged: management professionals

Healthy Schools Act Report: Your Feedback is Needed!

Do you work at or service a school or multiple schools? If so, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is seeking your input about the Healthy Schools Act. Feedback from stakeholders—school district staff, child care providers,...

Outdoor Baiting for Cockroaches

Two species of Blatta cockroaches can be common peridomestic pests in California, including the familiar oriental cockroach (B. orientalis) and a relative newcomer, the Turkestan cockroach (B. lateralis, Figure 1).  Adults of both species are large...

Using Seaweed to Kill Argentine Ants

[From the Spring issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] Argentine ants can be a damaging ant pest species in both agricultural and urban environments in California. Outdoors, they disrupt biological control by tending honeydew-producing pests and...

West Coast Rodent Academy Trains Pest Management Professionals

[From the May 2017 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] The West Coast Rodent Academy (WCRA) is a three-day intensive educational workshop hosted by University of California Cooperative Extension in association with the Pest Control Operators of...

West Coast Rodent Academy Workgroup [K. Willingham]

West Coast Rodent Academy Workgroup [K. Willingham]

New Law Requires Annual Training for Anyone Applying Pesticides at School Sites

[From the December 2016 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] School is already back in session for many children in districts throughout California, and several others will be starting back to school in the next couple of weeks. While students and...