School
Community Mosquito IPM
Webinar
Wednesday,
August 20, 2014 at 2 pm
EDT
Please join
us for a 1 hour webinar on School Community Mosquito IPM followed by a
20 minute Q&A session.
This
presentation is geared to school facility managers, buildings and
grounds managers and staff, childcare facility managers, and school IPM professionals. School nurses and school
administrators are also welcome
to attend.
|
|
|
School
Community Mosquito Management via IPM
|
|
|
Join us for a Webinar on August 20
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dr.
Mike Merchant, Texas A&M Ag Life Extension Service, will open
with Mosquitoes: disease vectors of concern, their biology, ID,
species comparisons, stages of development and disease. Mr.
Joseph Conlon, American Mosquito Control Association, will follow
with School Mosquito Integrated Pest Management, Integrating
Mosquito Management into your School IPM plan, and Pesticides
for mosquito management: why or why not - a decision making rationale.
He will also discuss local health department
mosquito
monitoring and surveillance – the first step in IPM. Dr. Marcia
Anderson EPA Center of Expertise for School
IPM,
will continue by identifying preferred mosquito breeding and feeding
habits. She will discuss habitat modification another component of IPM,
source reduction, and sanitation and maintenance to prevent mosquito
borne diseases. Common biological controls will also be introduced,
especially for school rain gardens, cisterns and other water collection
areas. Dr. Merchant will discuss additional mosquito IPM controls:
including mechanical devices, larvicides, IGR’s, and community
pesticide spraying. Comments about additional national research,
resources, and a Q&A session will conclude the webinar.
|
|
|
Title:
|
|
School
Community Mosquito Management via IPM
|
|
|
|
|
Date:
|
|
Wednesday,
August 20, 2014
|
|
|
|
|
Time:
|
|
2:00
PM - 3:30 PM EDT
|
|
|
|
|
System
Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
|
|
Macintosh®-based
attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer
|
|
Mobile
attendees
Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet
|
|
|
|
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment