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INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT
Insig hts
Photo by Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University, flic.kr/p/fEcLmK (CC BY-SA 2.0).
June 2021: Volume 18, Issue 1
I n t e g r a t e d P e s t M a n a g e m e n t
Insig hts
Northeastern
Center Virtual Conference Presents Overview of Current IPM Projects Northeastern
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n March 31, 2021, the Northeastern IPM Center hosted the latest • Amara Dunn, Biocontrol Specialist, New York State IPM Program Center
installment of the Northeast IPM Research Update Conference. • John Inguagiato, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
340 Tower Road
Center
The purpose of the conference was to increase collabora- • Daphne Munroe, Associate Professor, Rutgers University Cornell University
tion and awareness of current IPM-related research and extension in • David Owens, Extension Specialist, University of Delaware Ithaca, NY 14853
the Northeast, using an accessible, engaging format. The conference • Mahfuz Rahman, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, West
June 2021
delivered brief overviews of project highlights through five-minute pre- Virginia University
recorded presentations followed by live Q&A with the presenters. • Joseph Roberts, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Clemson
Volume 18, Issue 1
Northeastern IPM Center Names Maggie Lewis,
Featured projects included those funded by the Center’s Partnership University (discussing work performed during previous assistant Inside
Grants Program, the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and professorship at University of Maryland) Kathy Murray Recipients of 2020 Award
Education (NE SARE) Program, and USDA-NIFA’s Applied Research and • Kim Skyrm, State Apiarist, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural 4Spotted Lanternfly
Development Program (ARDP) and Extension Implementation Program Resources Updates — 3
Award recognizes
(EIP). • Lisa Tewksbury, Research Associate, University of Rhode Island
4Northeastern IPM accomplishments in IPM
• Changlu Wang, Extension Specialist, Rutgers University
Center Announces by students, professionals
• Veronica Yurchak, Graduate Student, University of Maryland
T
Presenters Recipients of 2021
Partnership Grants — 4 he Northeastern
• Sam Anderson, Urban Agriculture Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Integrated Pest Manage-
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Extension A brown marmorated stink bug feeds on a red pepper plant. 4Call for Submissions and ment (IPM) Center has
• Terence Bradshaw, Research Assistant Professor, University of To view the conference agenda or watch the recording, visit Photo by Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University, Photos — 4 announced the two recipi-
Vermont neipmc.org/go/tSES. flic.kr/p/fEcLmK (CC BY-SA 2.0). ents of its 2020 Outstanding
4Center Virtual Achievements in Integrated Pest
Conference Presents
Management Award: Kathy
Overview of Current IPM
Murray, IPM program coordina-
Projects — 5
tor for the Maine Department
NIPMCC Releases Whitepapers Backing IPM Support, Investment 4NIPMCC Releases of Agriculture, Conservation,
Whitepapers Backing and Forestry (DACF); and
IPM Support, Maggie Lewis, PhD candidate
New issue papers discuss role of IPM in combating
6
Investment — 5 in the University of Maryland,
resistance and invasive species, safeguarding food supply,
College Park, Department of
and minimizing economic losses Kathy Murray using giant cockroaches to engage youth and families in learn-
#2018-70006-28882.
Center funded an SLF working group. The following year, the group 4Tracy Leskey Named Entomology.
T
ing about integrated pest management. Photo provided by Kathy Murray.
Pest Management, Regional Coordination Program, Grant
he National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Commit-
Institute of Food and Agriculture, Crop Protection and a more recent invasive pest, the spotted lanternfly (SLF). In 2018, the Scientist of the Year for The annual award, launched
The Northeastern IPM Center is supported by the National Leskey has also played a key role in the coordinated response to Brown Marmorated Stink
tee (NIPMCC) has released a series of whitepapers explaining how in 2019, recognizes individuals
tors of that project. Bug Research — 6
pests threaten the security of the U.S. food supply, how an IPM Jana Hexter, Kevin Judd, David Lane, Susannah Reese, Mike Webb. or organizations whose work on IPM in the Northeast
Designer. Northeastern IPM Center: Nancy Cusumano, Deborah G. Grantham, Research Initiative (SCRI) since 2011. Leskey remains one of six co-direc- About This Year’s Winners
approach offers the most effective means of managing pests, and why IPM Insights: Deborah G. Grantham, Director; Mike Webb, Editor; Kevin Judd, deserves special recognition, with a goal of honoring
much broader BMSB project funded through the USDA’s Specialty Crop
ongoing investment in IPM research and extension is critical to keeping Credits one professional (or organization) and one student
nership Grants Program in 2010. That group laid the groundwork for a Professional Honoree: Kathy Murray
pace with the ever-evolving nature of these threats. each year. Nominations come from peers whose work
originally funded through the Center’s Part-
enjoying free rein in novel environments that lack the natural con- relates to IPM in various capacities. Each winner re- Over the course of her twenty-plus-year career, Kathy
announcement at neipmc.org/go/pCDt. project director of the BMSB working group
• U.S. Agriculture Is Vulnerable to Weeds, Diseases, Insects and Other trol agents often present in their native habitats. ceives $500 and agrees to provide a story and/or host a Murray has earned recognition for her work on many
including this year’s other recipients, see the official history of collaborating with Leskey, who was
Pest Threats: An overview of both the importance and fragility of webinar for the Center. specific pests. She has developed improved meth-
To learn more about the USDA-ARS awards, The Northeastern IPM Center has a long
American agriculture, its economic significance, and its specific The Center presented the awards virtually this year, ods for managing filth flies and beetles in livestock
About the NIPMCC well-deserved recognition. in Kearneysville, WV.
vulnerability to pests. largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. operations and performed mosquito monitoring
eastern IPM Center congratulates Leskey for this USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station
The National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Committee “We were pleased to receive such an enthusiastic with Maine’s vector-borne disease working group to
to arrive in the U.S. in recent history. The North- Leskey is research leader and director at the
• The Growing Threat of Pests Resistant to Pesticides and Other (NIPMCC) is a committee of the Experiment Station Committee on Orga- response to our call for nominations,” said Deborah reduce outbreaks of West Nile virus and eastern equine
against some of the most damaging invasive pests sive brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB).
Management Tactics: An explanation of pest resistance and how nization and Policy (ESCOP) and the Extension Committee on Organiza- G. Grantham, Center director. “The glowing testimo- encephalitis.
researching sustainable management strategies management strategies against the inva-
it develops, why traditional management methods are vulnerable tion and Policy (ECOP) within the Association of Public and Land-grant nials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Margaret But she is perhaps best known for her work in
Tracy Leskey has built a distinguished career honorees, citing her work in developing
to resistance, and how IPM undercuts the mechanisms by which Universities (APLU) governing structure. Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned school IPM. Since 2002, when Maine’s Board of Pes-
resistance develops while offering alternate methods to control
already-resistant pests.
It assists in development of reports and strategic plans on pest
management issues and pursues activities that facilitate coordination
co-directors.
SCRI grant of its own, with Leskey as one of seven
Leskey among its Scientist of the Year
Service (USDA-ARS) has named Tracy
T widespread recognition for their work on critical
pest-management issues—Murray as an experienced
ticides Control instituted rules that required schools
to practice IPM, Murray has developed and provided
leveraged its initial accomplishments to earn an he USDA’s Agricultural Research
and collaboration nationally among and between IPM research and professional, and Lewis as a graduate student just extensive guidance and training materials to help
• Invasive Pests: A $120 Billion-a-Year Threat to America’s Farms and extension at the land-grant universities, and between the land-grants Contact Us starting her career.”
Lands: A primer on invasive pests and the unique management and federal agencies involved in IPM.
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Research 607-255-8815
challenges they pose—and the economic damage they cause—by Learn more at escop.info/committee/nipmcc/. Tracy Leskey Named Scientist of the Year for northeastipm@cornell.edu See “Award” on Page 2
5 www.NortheastIPM.org www.NortheastIPM.org
Award
Continued from Cover Page Spotted Lanternfly Updates Northeastern IPM Center Announces Recipients of
By Nancy Cusumano 2021 Partnership Grants
school personnel effectively
A
understand and incorporate lthough efforts to develop management techniques to control
Annual grant program supports IPM research and extension in the Northeast
IPM into their broad range of the invasive spotted lanternfly (SLF) are well underway—includ-
operations. ing current work funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Research
T
Outside the region, Murray Initiative grant awarded in 2019—as expected, the pest’s presence and he Northeastern Integrated Pest Management
This Year’s Funded Projects
has also worked on national influence have continued to spread. (IPM) Center has announced the recipients of its Call for Submissions
materials, managed grants, and Since fall of 2020, there have been a number of finds—not always 2021 Partnership Grants.
Applied Research and Photos
been published by the EPA. indicating established populations, but generally illustrating the pest’s Each year, through a competitive request-for-ap-
“I have had the great penchant for spreading, particularly with inadvertent human assistance. plications (RFA) process, the Center’s IPM Partnership Early season soil applications of entomopathogenic Do you have IPM-related
fortune to find work I love and Grants Program distributes roughly $200,000 in fund- nematodes in high-tunnel IPM (Anna Wallingford, news or an IPM story to tell?
the support of mentors and ing to projects that further the mission of the Center, University of New Hampshire) We value the perspectives
Recent Timeline
colleagues,” said Murray. “I am address or identify IPM priorities for the Northeast, and of growers, implementers,
truly honored and humbled to benefit the region at large. Evaluation of a grower-friendly attract-and-kill sys- policymakers, and others on
October 2020
receive this recognition for our Each funded project falls under one of three tem for the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomor- the front lines of pest man-
efforts to advance IPM to protect Last October, two dead SLF individuals were found in Massachusetts categories: applied research, communications, and pha halys (Jaime Pinero, University of Massachusetts) agement, and we welcome
people, the environment, and and egg masses were found in Maine. Both had been transported in on working groups. guest submissions for future
our food and fiber supply.” plant material that originated in Pennsylvania. The egg masses were newsletter editions.
February 2021 Communications
In her nomination materi- empty and presumably had hatched in Pennsylvania, not in Maine. Whether you’d like to write
als, Murray was described as a The imported plant materials should have been inspected before In February, Virginia expanded its quarantine area by two more Promoting IPM practices for im- something new for us or sub-
“tireless teacher and advocate” leaving Pennsylvania, in accordance with the quarantine rules. counties, Warren and Clarke. proved perennial forage manage- mit something you’ve already
who “has always gone well Live populations were discovered in New Canaan and Greenwich, Several New Jersey counties were added to the map, reflecting that ment on owned and rented land had published elsewhere—
beyond the call of duty, always Connecticut, and in Jefferson County, Ohio, along the Ohio River and most of the state is now infested. in the Northeast (Kristin Williams, given reprint permission from
available to lend a hand for any adjacent to the known western Pennsylvania population in Beaver County. University of Vermont) that publication—we want to
March 2021
IPM effort.” The SLF map maintained by the New York State IPM Program was hear from you!
updated to reflect infestations in these Connecticut and Ohio counties, Pennsylvania added eight more counties to its quarantine, painting
Student Honoree: Maggie Working Groups
in addition to Washington County in Maryland. a swath westward across the whole state. The counties added were Do you have high-quality
Lewis
Maggie Lewis speaking about her research on spray coverage in caneberries to an audience of growers, extension agents, Cambria, Cameron, Franklin, Lackawanna, Montour, Pike, Wayne, and Municipal rodent IPM (Matt Frye, photos of pests, pest damage,
and university researchers at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center Horticultural Twilight Meeting and November 2020
At the time of her nomination, Westmoreland. These counties are not completely infested but have Cornell University) pest-management methods,
Tour. Photo by Susan Barnes/University of Maryland Extension.
Maggie Lewis was still a gradu- In November, a population was discovered in Ithaca, NY, by an ento- some municipalities with known infestations. or people demonstrating IPM
ate student, working under the mology undergraduate student. Adults and egg masses were discovered The 2021 Spotted Lanternfly Summit was held virtually over the Next-generation support for practices? Your images could
guidance of Kelly Hamby, associate professor and extension specialist to work with stakeholders to advance new and more sustainable IPM around the parking area of a student apartment complex. Once 2021 course of three full days, featuring presentations on new research, Northeast tree fruit IPM (Terence help us tell the story—and
in the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Entomology. programs.” arrived, a springtime removal of trees in the vicinity was conducted to extension, and communications efforts and outreach to stakeholders Bradshaw, University of Vermont) promote awareness—of cur-
She defended her PhD in March and graduated in May. Lewis’s nominations expressed confidence that she is “well positioned stop any undiscovered egg masses from hatching. and industry. rent and emerging pest- and
Lewis’s doctoral work has focused on spotted wing drosophila to advance the field of IPM” and is “passionate about IPM research and Dead adults were found in Michigan, but there remain no known live Visit StopSLF.org to watch the summit presentations. Also available pest-management issues.
(SWD), a significant pest of soft-skinned fruit crops that, at this time, is education.” populations. The dead adults arrived on freight or trucks from infested areas. to view is the recording of Spotted Lanternfly 101, a presentation and If we use your photos, they
best controlled through pesticides. Her work has laid the foundation for In New York, large infestations were found in Orangeburg, Port Q&A session held the week before the summit and intended to provide could appear in any of our
About the Program
developing alternative tactics and improving management practices. “The glowing testimonials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Marga- Jervis, and Staten Island. attendees with foundational SLF knowledge key to deriving maximum channels or collateral, includ-
Lewis has invested time and energy not just in research, but also in ret Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned widespread The map was updated to include Tompkins, Orange, and Rockland benefit from the summit. Learn more about the IPM Part- ing newsletters, brochures,
relationship-building with stakeholders including growers, professional recognition for their work on critical pest-management issues.” Counties, as well as Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens in the New nership Grants Program by visiting websites, and social media,
societies, and extension personnel, seeking to get constituents engaged – Deborah G. Grantham, director, Northeastern IPM Center York metropolitan area. Also added was Mineral County in West Virginia. neipmc.org/go/bfgs. and you’ll be credited as the
Resources
in the process of developing and implementing IPM methods to control Also this month, Brian Walsh, a Penn State Extension horticulture For those interested in seeking photographer.
SWD. educator in Berks County, PA, presented a webinar—Spotted Lanternfly: Stop SLF (www.stopslf.org)—The USDA SCRI-funded project to research funding through the program, the
Read More
Though still a student herself, Lewis has shared her knowledge and Impacts and Strategies for Ornamental Plants—a useful overview of this and develop control methods for spotted lanternfly, maintained by Center will release an RFA for the Please visit neipmc.org/go/
enthusiasm for IPM by mentoring undergraduate researchers. She has For more information about the Outstanding Achievements in IPM Award— pest and its implications. Visit www.hriresearch.org/thrive-web-series the Northeastern IPM Center. 2021 round of grants sometime this ncfs for more information.
also been published multiple times, obtained $81,000 in competitive including details about who is eligible to nominate candidates or receive to view this and other webinars in the Horticultural Research Institute fall.
research grants, and been invited to speak at multiple symposia. the award and the types of accomplishments considered worthy of recogni- tHRIve web series. Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly (extension.psu.edu/spotted- Image credits – stink bug nymphs: Gary Bernon, USDA APHIS, Bugwood.
“I have been really fortunate to work alongside and learn from tion—see this year’s call for nominations at neipmc.org/go/RERJ. lanternfly)—Penn State was the lead institution on the 2018 North- org; pears: Keith Weller, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org;
January 2021
a great group of people, and to find a career that I love,” said Lewis. Look for the 2021 call for nominations to be released in spring or sum- eastern IPM Center-funded working group that laid the groundwork mouse: Ed Freytag, City of New Orleans, Bugwood.org; blacklegged tick:
“I was initially drawn to the field of entomology because of the ap- mer 2021. Berkley County, in western Maryland, was added to the map. There for the USDA SCRI grant, and the grant’s project director, Julie Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; tarping:
plied-pest-management aspect, and I look forward to continuing also were dead individuals discovered in three North Carolina counties. Urban, is an associate research professor at Penn State.
Sonja Birthisel, University of Maine.
2 www.NortheastIPM.org www.NortheastIPM.org 4
Award
Continued from Cover Page Spotted Lanternfly Updates Northeastern IPM Center Announces Recipients of
By Nancy Cusumano 2021 Partnership Grants
school personnel effectively
A
understand and incorporate lthough efforts to develop management techniques to control
Annual grant program supports IPM research and extension in the Northeast
IPM into their broad range of the invasive spotted lanternfly (SLF) are well underway—includ-
operations. ing current work funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Research
T
Outside the region, Murray Initiative grant awarded in 2019—as expected, the pest’s presence and he Northeastern Integrated Pest Management
This Year’s Funded Projects
has also worked on national influence have continued to spread. (IPM) Center has announced the recipients of its Call for Submissions
materials, managed grants, and Since fall of 2020, there have been a number of finds—not always 2021 Partnership Grants.
Applied Research and Photos
been published by the EPA. indicating established populations, but generally illustrating the pest’s Each year, through a competitive request-for-ap-
“I have had the great penchant for spreading, particularly with inadvertent human assistance. plications (RFA) process, the Center’s IPM Partnership Early season soil applications of entomopathogenic Do you have IPM-related
fortune to find work I love and Grants Program distributes roughly $200,000 in fund- nematodes in high-tunnel IPM (Anna Wallingford, news or an IPM story to tell?
the support of mentors and ing to projects that further the mission of the Center, University of New Hampshire) We value the perspectives
Recent Timeline
colleagues,” said Murray. “I am address or identify IPM priorities for the Northeast, and of growers, implementers,
truly honored and humbled to benefit the region at large. Evaluation of a grower-friendly attract-and-kill sys- policymakers, and others on
October 2020
receive this recognition for our Each funded project falls under one of three tem for the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomor- the front lines of pest man-
efforts to advance IPM to protect Last October, two dead SLF individuals were found in Massachusetts categories: applied research, communications, and pha halys (Jaime Pinero, University of Massachusetts) agement, and we welcome
people, the environment, and and egg masses were found in Maine. Both had been transported in on working groups. guest submissions for future
February 2021
our food and fiber supply.” plant material that originated in Pennsylvania. The egg masses were newsletter editions.
Communications
In her nomination materi- empty and presumably had hatched in Pennsylvania, not in Maine. In February, Virginia expanded its quarantine area by two more Whether you’d like to write
als, Murray was described as a Live populations were discovered in New Canaan and Greenwich, counties, Warren and Clarke. Promoting IPM practices for im- something new for us or sub-
“tireless teacher and advocate” Connecticut, and in Jefferson County, Ohio, along the Ohio River and Several New Jersey counties were added to the map, reflecting that proved perennial forage manage- mit something you’ve already
who “has always gone well adjacent to the known western Pennsylvania population in Beaver County. most of the state is now infested. ment on owned and rented land had published elsewhere—
beyond the call of duty, always The SLF map maintained by the New York State IPM Program was in the Northeast (Kristin Williams, given reprint permission from
March 2021
available to lend a hand for any updated to reflect infestations in these Connecticut and Ohio counties, University of Vermont) that publication—we want to
IPM effort.” in addition to Washington County in Maryland. Pennsylvania added eight more counties to its quarantine, painting hear from you!
a swath westward across the whole state. The counties added were
Student Honoree: Maggie November 2020 Working Groups
Cambria, Cameron, Franklin, Lackawanna, Montour, Pike, Wayne, and Do you have high-quality
Lewis
Maggie Lewis speaking about her research on spray coverage in caneberries to an audience of growers, extension agents, In November, a population was discovered in Ithaca, NY, by an ento- Westmoreland. These counties are not completely infested but have Municipal rodent IPM (Matt Frye, photos of pests, pest damage,
At the time of her nomination, and university researchers at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center Horticultural Twilight Meeting and mology undergraduate student. Adults and egg masses were discovered some municipalities with known infestations. Cornell University) pest-management methods,
Tour. Photo by Susan Barnes/University of Maryland Extension.
Maggie Lewis was still a gradu- around the parking area of a student apartment complex. Once 2021 The 2021 Spotted Lanternfly Summit was held virtually over the or people demonstrating IPM
ate student, working under the arrived, a springtime removal of trees in the vicinity was conducted to course of three full days, featuring presentations on new research, Next-generation support for practices? Your images could
guidance of Kelly Hamby, associate professor and extension specialist to work with stakeholders to advance new and more sustainable IPM stop any undiscovered egg masses from hatching. extension, and communications efforts and outreach to stakeholders Northeast tree fruit IPM (Terence help us tell the story—and
in the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Entomology. programs.” Dead adults were found in Michigan, but there remain no known live and industry. Bradshaw, University of Vermont) promote awareness—of cur-
She defended her PhD in March and graduated in May. Lewis’s nominations expressed confidence that she is “well positioned populations. The dead adults arrived on freight or trucks from infested areas. Visit StopSLF.org to watch the summit presentations. Also available rent and emerging pest- and
Lewis’s doctoral work has focused on spotted wing drosophila to advance the field of IPM” and is “passionate about IPM research and In New York, large infestations were found in Orangeburg, Port to view is the recording of Spotted Lanternfly 101, a presentation and pest-management issues.
(SWD), a significant pest of soft-skinned fruit crops that, at this time, is education.” Jervis, and Staten Island. Q&A session held the week before the summit and intended to provide If we use your photos, they
best controlled through pesticides. Her work has laid the foundation for The map was updated to include Tompkins, Orange, and Rockland attendees with foundational SLF knowledge key to deriving maximum could appear in any of our
About the Program
developing alternative tactics and improving management practices. “The glowing testimonials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Marga- Counties, as well as Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens in the New benefit from the summit. channels or collateral, includ-
Lewis has invested time and energy not just in research, but also in ret Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned widespread York metropolitan area. Also added was Mineral County in West Virginia. Learn more about the IPM Part- ing newsletters, brochures,
relationship-building with stakeholders including growers, professional recognition for their work on critical pest-management issues.” Also this month, Brian Walsh, a Penn State Extension horticulture nership Grants Program by visiting websites, and social media,
Resources
societies, and extension personnel, seeking to get constituents engaged – Deborah G. Grantham, director, Northeastern IPM Center educator in Berks County, PA, presented a webinar—Spotted Lanternfly: neipmc.org/go/bfgs. and you’ll be credited as the
in the process of developing and implementing IPM methods to control Impacts and Strategies for Ornamental Plants—a useful overview of this Stop SLF (www.stopslf.org)—The USDA SCRI-funded project to research For those interested in seeking photographer.
SWD. pest and its implications. Visit www.hriresearch.org/thrive-web-series and develop control methods for spotted lanternfly, maintained by funding through the program, the
Read More
Though still a student herself, Lewis has shared her knowledge and to view this and other webinars in the Horticultural Research Institute the Northeastern IPM Center. Center will release an RFA for the Please visit neipmc.org/go/
enthusiasm for IPM by mentoring undergraduate researchers. She has For more information about the Outstanding Achievements in IPM Award— tHRIve web series. 2021 round of grants sometime this ncfs for more information.
also been published multiple times, obtained $81,000 in competitive including details about who is eligible to nominate candidates or receive Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly (extension.psu.edu/spotted- fall.
January 2021
research grants, and been invited to speak at multiple symposia. the award and the types of accomplishments considered worthy of recogni- lanternfly)—Penn State was the lead institution on the 2018 North- Image credits – stink bug nymphs: Gary Bernon, USDA APHIS, Bugwood.
“I have been really fortunate to work alongside and learn from tion—see this year’s call for nominations at neipmc.org/go/RERJ. Berkley County, in western Maryland, was added to the map. There eastern IPM Center-funded working group that laid the groundwork org; pears: Keith Weller, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org;
a great group of people, and to find a career that I love,” said Lewis. Look for the 2021 call for nominations to be released in spring or sum- also were dead individuals discovered in three North Carolina counties. for the USDA SCRI grant, and the grant’s project director, Julie mouse: Ed Freytag, City of New Orleans, Bugwood.org; blacklegged tick:
“I was initially drawn to the field of entomology because of the ap- mer 2021. Urban, is an associate research professor at Penn State. Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; tarping:
plied-pest-management aspect, and I look forward to continuing
Sonja Birthisel, University of Maine.
2 www.NortheastIPM.org www.NortheastIPM.org 4
Award
Continued from Cover Page Spotted Lanternfly Updates Northeastern IPM Center Announces Recipients of
By Nancy Cusumano 2021 Partnership Grants
school personnel effectively
A
understand and incorporate lthough efforts to develop management techniques to control
Annual grant program supports IPM research and extension in the Northeast
IPM into their broad range of the invasive spotted lanternfly (SLF) are well underway—includ-
operations. ing current work funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Research
T
Outside the region, Murray Initiative grant awarded in 2019—as expected, the pest’s presence and he Northeastern Integrated Pest Management
This Year’s Funded Projects
has also worked on national influence have continued to spread. (IPM) Center has announced the recipients of its Call for Submissions
materials, managed grants, and Since fall of 2020, there have been a number of finds—not always 2021 Partnership Grants.
Applied Research and Photos
been published by the EPA. indicating established populations, but generally illustrating the pest’s Each year, through a competitive request-for-ap-
“I have had the great penchant for spreading, particularly with inadvertent human assistance. plications (RFA) process, the Center’s IPM Partnership Early season soil applications of entomopathogenic Do you have IPM-related
fortune to find work I love and Grants Program distributes roughly $200,000 in fund- nematodes in high-tunnel IPM (Anna Wallingford, news or an IPM story to tell?
the support of mentors and ing to projects that further the mission of the Center, University of New Hampshire) We value the perspectives
Recent Timeline
colleagues,” said Murray. “I am address or identify IPM priorities for the Northeast, and of growers, implementers,
truly honored and humbled to benefit the region at large. Evaluation of a grower-friendly attract-and-kill sys- policymakers, and others on
October 2020
receive this recognition for our Each funded project falls under one of three tem for the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomor- the front lines of pest man-
efforts to advance IPM to protect Last October, two dead SLF individuals were found in Massachusetts categories: applied research, communications, and pha halys (Jaime Pinero, University of Massachusetts) agement, and we welcome
people, the environment, and and egg masses were found in Maine. Both had been transported in on working groups. guest submissions for future
our food and fiber supply.” plant material that originated in Pennsylvania. The egg masses were newsletter editions.
February 2021 Communications
In her nomination materi- empty and presumably had hatched in Pennsylvania, not in Maine. Whether you’d like to write
als, Murray was described as a The imported plant materials should have been inspected before In February, Virginia expanded its quarantine area by two more Promoting IPM practices for im- something new for us or sub-
“tireless teacher and advocate” leaving Pennsylvania, in accordance with the quarantine rules. counties, Warren and Clarke. proved perennial forage manage- mit something you’ve already
who “has always gone well Live populations were discovered in New Canaan and Greenwich, Several New Jersey counties were added to the map, reflecting that ment on owned and rented land had published elsewhere—
beyond the call of duty, always Connecticut, and in Jefferson County, Ohio, along the Ohio River and most of the state is now infested. in the Northeast (Kristin Williams, given reprint permission from
available to lend a hand for any adjacent to the known western Pennsylvania population in Beaver County. University of Vermont) that publication—we want to
March 2021
IPM effort.” The SLF map maintained by the New York State IPM Program was hear from you!
updated to reflect infestations in these Connecticut and Ohio counties, Pennsylvania added eight more counties to its quarantine, painting
Student Honoree: Maggie Working Groups
in addition to Washington County in Maryland. a swath westward across the whole state. The counties added were Do you have high-quality
Lewis
Maggie Lewis speaking about her research on spray coverage in caneberries to an audience of growers, extension agents, Cambria, Cameron, Franklin, Lackawanna, Montour, Pike, Wayne, and Municipal rodent IPM (Matt Frye, photos of pests, pest damage,
and university researchers at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center Horticultural Twilight Meeting and November 2020
At the time of her nomination, Westmoreland. These counties are not completely infested but have Cornell University) pest-management methods,
Tour. Photo by Susan Barnes/University of Maryland Extension.
Maggie Lewis was still a gradu- In November, a population was discovered in Ithaca, NY, by an ento- some municipalities with known infestations. or people demonstrating IPM
ate student, working under the mology undergraduate student. Adults and egg masses were discovered The 2021 Spotted Lanternfly Summit was held virtually over the Next-generation support for practices? Your images could
guidance of Kelly Hamby, associate professor and extension specialist to work with stakeholders to advance new and more sustainable IPM around the parking area of a student apartment complex. Once 2021 course of three full days, featuring presentations on new research, Northeast tree fruit IPM (Terence help us tell the story—and
in the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Entomology. programs.” arrived, a springtime removal of trees in the vicinity was conducted to extension, and communications efforts and outreach to stakeholders Bradshaw, University of Vermont) promote awareness—of cur-
She defended her PhD in March and graduated in May. Lewis’s nominations expressed confidence that she is “well positioned stop any undiscovered egg masses from hatching. and industry. rent and emerging pest- and
Lewis’s doctoral work has focused on spotted wing drosophila to advance the field of IPM” and is “passionate about IPM research and Dead adults were found in Michigan, but there remain no known live Visit StopSLF.org to watch the summit presentations. Also available pest-management issues.
(SWD), a significant pest of soft-skinned fruit crops that, at this time, is education.” populations. The dead adults arrived on freight or trucks from infested areas. to view is the recording of Spotted Lanternfly 101, a presentation and If we use your photos, they
best controlled through pesticides. Her work has laid the foundation for In New York, large infestations were found in Orangeburg, Port Q&A session held the week before the summit and intended to provide could appear in any of our
About the Program
developing alternative tactics and improving management practices. “The glowing testimonials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Marga- Jervis, and Staten Island. attendees with foundational SLF knowledge key to deriving maximum channels or collateral, includ-
Lewis has invested time and energy not just in research, but also in ret Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned widespread The map was updated to include Tompkins, Orange, and Rockland benefit from the summit. Learn more about the IPM Part- ing newsletters, brochures,
relationship-building with stakeholders including growers, professional recognition for their work on critical pest-management issues.” Counties, as well as Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens in the New nership Grants Program by visiting websites, and social media,
societies, and extension personnel, seeking to get constituents engaged – Deborah G. Grantham, director, Northeastern IPM Center York metropolitan area. Also added was Mineral County in West Virginia. neipmc.org/go/bfgs. and you’ll be credited as the
Resources
in the process of developing and implementing IPM methods to control Also this month, Brian Walsh, a Penn State Extension horticulture For those interested in seeking photographer.
SWD. educator in Berks County, PA, presented a webinar—Spotted Lanternfly: Stop SLF (www.stopslf.org)—The USDA SCRI-funded project to research funding through the program, the
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Though still a student herself, Lewis has shared her knowledge and Impacts and Strategies for Ornamental Plants—a useful overview of this and develop control methods for spotted lanternfly, maintained by Center will release an RFA for the Please visit neipmc.org/go/
enthusiasm for IPM by mentoring undergraduate researchers. She has For more information about the Outstanding Achievements in IPM Award— pest and its implications. Visit www.hriresearch.org/thrive-web-series the Northeastern IPM Center. 2021 round of grants sometime this ncfs for more information.
also been published multiple times, obtained $81,000 in competitive including details about who is eligible to nominate candidates or receive to view this and other webinars in the Horticultural Research Institute fall.
research grants, and been invited to speak at multiple symposia. the award and the types of accomplishments considered worthy of recogni- tHRIve web series. Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly (extension.psu.edu/spotted- Image credits – stink bug nymphs: Gary Bernon, USDA APHIS, Bugwood.
“I have been really fortunate to work alongside and learn from tion—see this year’s call for nominations at neipmc.org/go/RERJ. lanternfly)—Penn State was the lead institution on the 2018 North- org; pears: Keith Weller, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org;
January 2021
a great group of people, and to find a career that I love,” said Lewis. Look for the 2021 call for nominations to be released in spring or sum- eastern IPM Center-funded working group that laid the groundwork mouse: Ed Freytag, City of New Orleans, Bugwood.org; blacklegged tick:
“I was initially drawn to the field of entomology because of the ap- mer 2021. Berkley County, in western Maryland, was added to the map. There for the USDA SCRI grant, and the grant’s project director, Julie Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; tarping:
plied-pest-management aspect, and I look forward to continuing also were dead individuals discovered in three North Carolina counties. Urban, is an associate research professor at Penn State.
Sonja Birthisel, University of Maine.
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I n t e g r a t e d P e s t M a n a g e m e n t
Insig hts
Northeastern
Center Virtual Conference Presents Overview of Current IPM Projects Northeastern
O
n March 31, 2021, the Northeastern IPM Center hosted the latest • Amara Dunn, Biocontrol Specialist, New York State IPM Program Center
installment of the Northeast IPM Research Update Conference. • John Inguagiato, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
340 Tower Road
Center
The purpose of the conference was to increase collabora- • Daphne Munroe, Associate Professor, Rutgers University Cornell University
tion and awareness of current IPM-related research and extension in • David Owens, Extension Specialist, University of Delaware Ithaca, NY 14853
the Northeast, using an accessible, engaging format. The conference • Mahfuz Rahman, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, West
June 2021
delivered brief overviews of project highlights through five-minute pre- Virginia University
recorded presentations followed by live Q&A with the presenters. • Joseph Roberts, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Clemson
Volume 18, Issue 1
Northeastern IPM Center Names Maggie Lewis,
Featured projects included those funded by the Center’s Partnership University (discussing work performed during previous assistant Inside
Grants Program, the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and professorship at University of Maryland) Kathy Murray Recipients of 2020 Award
Education (NE SARE) Program, and USDA-NIFA’s Applied Research and • Kim Skyrm, State Apiarist, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural 4Spotted Lanternfly
Development Program (ARDP) and Extension Implementation Program Resources Updates — 3
Award recognizes
(EIP). • Lisa Tewksbury, Research Associate, University of Rhode Island
4Northeastern IPM accomplishments in IPM
• Changlu Wang, Extension Specialist, Rutgers University
Center Announces by students, professionals
• Veronica Yurchak, Graduate Student, University of Maryland
T
Presenters Recipients of 2021
Partnership Grants — 4 he Northeastern
• Sam Anderson, Urban Agriculture Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Integrated Pest Manage-
Read More
Extension A brown marmorated stink bug feeds on a red pepper plant. 4Call for Submissions and ment (IPM) Center has
• Terence Bradshaw, Research Assistant Professor, University of To view the conference agenda or watch the recording, visit Photo by Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University, Photos — 4 announced the two recipi-
Vermont neipmc.org/go/tSES. flic.kr/p/fEcLmK (CC BY-SA 2.0). ents of its 2020 Outstanding
4Center Virtual Achievements in Integrated Pest
Conference Presents
Management Award: Kathy
Overview of Current IPM
Murray, IPM program coordina-
Projects — 5
tor for the Maine Department
NIPMCC Releases Whitepapers Backing IPM Support, Investment 4NIPMCC Releases of Agriculture, Conservation,
Whitepapers Backing and Forestry (DACF); and
IPM Support, Maggie Lewis, PhD candidate
New issue papers discuss role of IPM in combating
6
Investment — 5 in the University of Maryland,
resistance and invasive species, safeguarding food supply,
College Park, Department of
and minimizing economic losses Kathy Murray using giant cockroaches to engage youth and families in learn-
#2018-70006-28882.
Center funded an SLF working group. The following year, the group 4Tracy Leskey Named Entomology.
T
ing about integrated pest management. Photo provided by Kathy Murray.
Pest Management, Regional Coordination Program, Grant
he National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Commit-
Institute of Food and Agriculture, Crop Protection and a more recent invasive pest, the spotted lanternfly (SLF). In 2018, the Scientist of the Year for The annual award, launched
The Northeastern IPM Center is supported by the National Leskey has also played a key role in the coordinated response to Brown Marmorated Stink
tee (NIPMCC) has released a series of whitepapers explaining how in 2019, recognizes individuals
tors of that project. Bug Research — 6
pests threaten the security of the U.S. food supply, how an IPM Jana Hexter, Kevin Judd, David Lane, Susannah Reese, Mike Webb. or organizations whose work on IPM in the Northeast
Designer. Northeastern IPM Center: Nancy Cusumano, Deborah G. Grantham, Research Initiative (SCRI) since 2011. Leskey remains one of six co-direc- About This Year’s Winners
approach offers the most effective means of managing pests, and why IPM Insights: Deborah G. Grantham, Director; Mike Webb, Editor; Kevin Judd, deserves special recognition, with a goal of honoring
much broader BMSB project funded through the USDA’s Specialty Crop
ongoing investment in IPM research and extension is critical to keeping Credits one professional (or organization) and one student
nership Grants Program in 2010. That group laid the groundwork for a Professional Honoree: Kathy Murray
pace with the ever-evolving nature of these threats. each year. Nominations come from peers whose work
originally funded through the Center’s Part-
enjoying free rein in novel environments that lack the natural con- relates to IPM in various capacities. Each winner re- Over the course of her twenty-plus-year career, Kathy
announcement at neipmc.org/go/pCDt. project director of the BMSB working group
• U.S. Agriculture Is Vulnerable to Weeds, Diseases, Insects and Other trol agents often present in their native habitats. ceives $500 and agrees to provide a story and/or host a Murray has earned recognition for her work on many
including this year’s other recipients, see the official history of collaborating with Leskey, who was
Pest Threats: An overview of both the importance and fragility of webinar for the Center. specific pests. She has developed improved meth-
To learn more about the USDA-ARS awards, The Northeastern IPM Center has a long
American agriculture, its economic significance, and its specific The Center presented the awards virtually this year, ods for managing filth flies and beetles in livestock
About the NIPMCC well-deserved recognition. in Kearneysville, WV.
vulnerability to pests. largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. operations and performed mosquito monitoring
eastern IPM Center congratulates Leskey for this USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station
The National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Committee “We were pleased to receive such an enthusiastic with Maine’s vector-borne disease working group to
to arrive in the U.S. in recent history. The North- Leskey is research leader and director at the
• The Growing Threat of Pests Resistant to Pesticides and Other (NIPMCC) is a committee of the Experiment Station Committee on Orga- response to our call for nominations,” said Deborah reduce outbreaks of West Nile virus and eastern equine
against some of the most damaging invasive pests sive brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB).
Management Tactics: An explanation of pest resistance and how nization and Policy (ESCOP) and the Extension Committee on Organiza- G. Grantham, Center director. “The glowing testimo- encephalitis.
researching sustainable management strategies management strategies against the inva-
it develops, why traditional management methods are vulnerable tion and Policy (ECOP) within the Association of Public and Land-grant nials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Margaret But she is perhaps best known for her work in
Tracy Leskey has built a distinguished career honorees, citing her work in developing
to resistance, and how IPM undercuts the mechanisms by which Universities (APLU) governing structure. Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned school IPM. Since 2002, when Maine’s Board of Pes-
resistance develops while offering alternate methods to control
already-resistant pests.
It assists in development of reports and strategic plans on pest
management issues and pursues activities that facilitate coordination
co-directors.
SCRI grant of its own, with Leskey as one of seven
Leskey among its Scientist of the Year
Service (USDA-ARS) has named Tracy
T widespread recognition for their work on critical
pest-management issues—Murray as an experienced
ticides Control instituted rules that required schools
to practice IPM, Murray has developed and provided
leveraged its initial accomplishments to earn an he USDA’s Agricultural Research
and collaboration nationally among and between IPM research and professional, and Lewis as a graduate student just extensive guidance and training materials to help
• Invasive Pests: A $120 Billion-a-Year Threat to America’s Farms and extension at the land-grant universities, and between the land-grants Contact Us starting her career.”
Lands: A primer on invasive pests and the unique management and federal agencies involved in IPM.
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Research 607-255-8815
challenges they pose—and the economic damage they cause—by Learn more at escop.info/committee/nipmcc/. Tracy Leskey Named Scientist of the Year for northeastipm@cornell.edu See “Award” on Page 2
5 www.NortheastIPM.org www.NortheastIPM.org
I n t e g r a t e d P e s t M a n a g e m e n t
Northeastern
Center Virtual Conference Presents Overview of Current IPM Projects Northeastern
n March 31, 2021, the Northeastern IPM Center hosted the latest • Amara Dunn, Biocontrol Specialist, New York State IPM Program Center
installment of the Northeast IPM Research Update Conference. • John Inguagiato, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut Center
O The purpose of the conference was to increase collabora-
tion and awareness of current IPM-related research and extension in
• Daphne Munroe, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
• David Owens, Extension Specialist, University of Delaware
340 Tower Road
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Insig hts
the Northeast, using an accessible, engaging format. The conference • Mahfuz Rahman, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, West
June 2021
delivered brief overviews of project highlights through five-minute pre- Virginia University
Volume 18, Issue 1
recorded presentations followed by live Q&A with the presenters. • Joseph Roberts, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Clemson Northeastern IPM Center Names Maggie Lewis,
Featured projects included those funded by the Center’s Partnership University (discussing work performed during previous assistant Inside
Grants Program, the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and professorship at University of Maryland) Kathy Murray Recipients of 2020 Award
Education (NE SARE) Program, and USDA-NIFA’s Applied Research and • Kim Skyrm, State Apiarist, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural 4Spotted Lanternfly
Development Program (ARDP) and Extension Implementation Program Resources Updates — 3
Award recognizes
(EIP). • Lisa Tewksbury, Research Associate, University of Rhode Island
4Northeastern IPM accomplishments in IPM
• Changlu Wang, Extension Specialist, Rutgers University
Center Announces by students, professionals
• Veronica Yurchak, Graduate Student, University of Maryland
Presenters Recipients of 2021
Partnership Grants — 4 he Northeastern
• Sam Anderson, Urban Agriculture Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Integrated Pest Manage-
Read More
Extension A brown marmorated stink bug feeds on a red pepper plant. 4Call for Submissions and T ment (IPM) Center has
• Terence Bradshaw, Research Assistant Professor, University of To view the conference agenda or watch the recording, visit Photo by Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University, Photos — 4 announced the two recipi-
Vermont neipmc.org/go/tSES. flic.kr/p/fEcLmK (CC BY-SA 2.0). ents of its 2020 Outstanding
4Center Virtual Achievements in Integrated Pest
Conference Presents
Management Award: Kathy
Overview of Current IPM
Murray, IPM program coordina-
Projects — 5
tor for the Maine Department
NIPMCC Releases Whitepapers Backing IPM Support, Investment 4NIPMCC Releases of Agriculture, Conservation,
Whitepapers Backing and Forestry (DACF); and
6 IPM Support, Maggie Lewis, PhD candidate
New issue papers discuss role of IPM in combating
Investment — 5 in the University of Maryland,
resistance and invasive species, safeguarding food supply,
College Park, Department of
Kathy Murray using giant cockroaches to engage youth and families in learn-
#2018-70006-28882.
and minimizing economic losses Center funded an SLF working group. The following year, the group 4Tracy Leskey Named
Pest Management, Regional Coordination Program, Grant Entomology. ing about integrated pest management. Photo provided by Kathy Murray.
he National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Commit-
Institute of Food and Agriculture, Crop Protection and a more recent invasive pest, the spotted lanternfly (SLF). In 2018, the Scientist of the Year for The annual award, launched
The Northeastern IPM Center is supported by the National Leskey has also played a key role in the coordinated response to Brown Marmorated Stink
tee (NIPMCC) has released a series of whitepapers explaining how in 2019, recognizes individuals
tors of that project. Bug Research — 6
pests threaten the security of the U.S. food supply, how an IPM Jana Hexter, Kevin Judd, David Lane, Susannah Reese, Mike Webb. or organizations whose work on IPM in the Northeast
Designer. Northeastern IPM Center: Nancy Cusumano, Deborah G. Grantham, About This Year’s Winners
T
approach offers the most effective means of managing pests, and why IPM Insights: Deborah G. Grantham, Director; Mike Webb, Editor; Kevin Judd,
Research Initiative (SCRI) since 2011. Leskey remains one of six co-direc-
much broader BMSB project funded through the USDA’s Specialty Crop
deserves special recognition, with a goal of honoring
ongoing investment in IPM research and extension is critical to keeping one professional (or organization) and one student
Professional Honoree: Kathy Murray
Credits
nership Grants Program in 2010. That group laid the groundwork for a
pace with the ever-evolving nature of these threats. each year. Nominations come from peers whose work
originally funded through the Center’s Part-
enjoying free rein in novel environments that lack the natural con- relates to IPM in various capacities. Each winner re- Over the course of her twenty-plus-year career, Kathy
announcement at neipmc.org/go/pCDt. project director of the BMSB working group
• U.S. Agriculture Is Vulnerable to Weeds, Diseases, Insects and Other trol agents often present in their native habitats. ceives $500 and agrees to provide a story and/or host a Murray has earned recognition for her work on many
including this year’s other recipients, see the official history of collaborating with Leskey, who was
Pest Threats: An overview of both the importance and fragility of webinar for the Center. specific pests. She has developed improved meth-
To learn more about the USDA-ARS awards, The Northeastern IPM Center has a long
American agriculture, its economic significance, and its specific The Center presented the awards virtually this year, ods for managing filth flies and beetles in livestock
About the NIPMCC well-deserved recognition. in Kearneysville, WV.
vulnerability to pests. largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. operations and performed mosquito monitoring
eastern IPM Center congratulates Leskey for this USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station
The National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Committee “We were pleased to receive such an enthusiastic with Maine’s vector-borne disease working group to
to arrive in the U.S. in recent history. The North- Leskey is research leader and director at the
• The Growing Threat of Pests Resistant to Pesticides and Other (NIPMCC) is a committee of the Experiment Station Committee on Orga- response to our call for nominations,” said Deborah reduce outbreaks of West Nile virus and eastern equine
against some of the most damaging invasive pests sive brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB).
Management Tactics: An explanation of pest resistance and how nization and Policy (ESCOP) and the Extension Committee on Organiza- G. Grantham, Center director. “The glowing testimo- encephalitis.
researching sustainable management strategies management strategies against the inva-
it develops, why traditional management methods are vulnerable tion and Policy (ECOP) within the Association of Public and Land-grant nials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Margaret But she is perhaps best known for her work in
Tracy Leskey has built a distinguished career honorees, citing her work in developing
to resistance, and how IPM undercuts the mechanisms by which Universities (APLU) governing structure. Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned school IPM. Since 2002, when Maine’s Board of Pes-
co-directors. Leskey among its Scientist of the Year
resistance develops while offering alternate methods to control It assists in development of reports and strategic plans on pest widespread recognition for their work on critical ticides Control instituted rules that required schools
SCRI grant of its own, with Leskey as one of seven Service (USDA-ARS) has named Tracy
already-resistant pests. management issues and pursues activities that facilitate coordination pest-management issues—Murray as an experienced to practice IPM, Murray has developed and provided
leveraged its initial accomplishments to earn an he USDA’s Agricultural Research
and collaboration nationally among and between IPM research and professional, and Lewis as a graduate student just extensive guidance and training materials to help
T
• Invasive Pests: A $120 Billion-a-Year Threat to America’s Farms and extension at the land-grant universities, and between the land-grants Contact Us starting her career.”
Lands: A primer on invasive pests and the unique management and federal agencies involved in IPM. 607-255-8815
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Research
challenges they pose—and the economic damage they cause—by Learn more at escop.info/committee/nipmcc/. Tracy Leskey Named Scientist of the Year for northeastipm@cornell.edu See “Award” on Page 2
5 www.NortheastIPM.org www.NortheastIPM.org
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