To prevent further spread of Emerald Ash Borer, the state of Georgia issued a quarantine in August, restricting the transportation of certain products outside of the quarantined area.
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From the Asheville Citizen-Times
A devastating decline in the Smokies bat population is forcing the closure of a popular hiking area to help protect bats and humans, park managers say.
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The Southern Plant Diagnostic Network has an opening for a Biological Scientist. See the full position description for more details.
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In the University of Georgia Landscape Alert blog
This blog is adapted from the original by Alfredo Martinez, UGA Plant Pathologist and Willie Chance, UGA Center for Urban Agriculture
This year did your lawns show round or irregular dead or dying patches? Did the grass yellow or wilt even though the soil is moist? If so, these lawns may be infected with Take All root rot. This fungal disease affects centipede, St. Augustine and Bermuda lawns.
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Original article and video in Southeast Farm Press
BLOGGER’S NOTE: The Southern IPM Center funded some of Dr. Hagan’s research on target spot, which has helped inform Dr. Kelly’s observations about the disease.
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Heather Kelly says she doesn’t want to sound too many alarms about target spot in cotton just yet.
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The symposium planning committee is pleased to announce the line-up of plenary speakers for the 8th International IPM Symposium – http://ipmcenters.org/ipmsymposium15 – to be held March 23-26, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah USA:
-Jim Jones, Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), U.S Environmental Protection Agency Continue reading
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By Jan Suszkiw
Beneficial fungi could become microbial marshals tasked with wrangling a weedy icon of the American West, Salsola tragus—also known as tumbleweed or Russian thistle.
Popularly depicted in movies and television tumbling through dusty towns of the Old West, tumbleweed is in fact one nasty hombre of the western American landscape, elbowing aside crops, clogging irrigation ditches, spreading insect pests, and even posing a driving hazard.
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Scientists at the USDA are conducting a second year of the “Great Stink Bug Count” and are seeking volunteers to help track the pest. They are trying to identify characteristics of houses that brown marmorated stink bugs look for when finding overwintering sites. Last year’s count had over 200 volunteers with 44 individuals who counted every day.
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Florida’s Giant African Land Snail eradication effort, which has already eradicated more than 140,000 snails, is still top priority for the state due to the discovery of a new population of giant snails in another part of Florida.
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The recorded webinar “Lowering Costs with an In-House Bed Bug Preventions and Management Plan” is now up online here: http://stoppests.org/vtechbedbug
On that same page you will find a link to the questions and answers asked during and after the webinar, the slides from the presentation, and other helpful links.
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