Recent (or recently discovered) IPM articles and information

 

Improving Environmental Health in Schools What’s needed and why.

 

Improving Ventilation in Buildings Guidance from the CDC

 

Why do in-person IPM coordinator training instead of online training?  The great majority of participants prefer in-person for a variety of reasons including networking, more time to share and discuss problems and solutions, group activities, and the in-person/hands-on IPM inspections and assessments which take up most of the afternoon.  We know from research and experience that these methods are more effective at building and retention of knowledge and skills.

 

ODA Videos: Written Notices for Pesticide Application, Warning Signs, and Declaring a Pest Emergency

 

EPA lists of Pests of Significant Public Health ImportanceMany pests at schools are on these lists.

 

Tips for Making Your IPM Plan CompleteTime to take a second-look at your “governing body”-approved plan and fix any deficiencies.

 

All you NEED TO KNOW about “Declaring a Pest Emergency

 

Public Health Importance of Urban Rodents (Significance of city mice and rats on everyday public health).

Cleaning Up After Rodents (guidelines from the CDC)

“Domestic Rodents and Cockroaches:  Pictorial Key to Droppings” (See pg. 3 of these Keys)

Scientific Coalition on Pest Exclusion
See the following under “General Resources” and “Materials Selection” sections:
“-Exclusion Essentials”
“-Exclusion: The Future of Pest Management”
“-Of Rodents and Doors”
“-Rodent-Proof Constructions and Exclusion Methods”

 

Tim Stock
OSU School IPM Program Director
(541) 737-6279
tim.stock@oregonstate.edu

 

“Everybody knows something.  Nobody knows everything.  Although the individual may know little, the group as a whole knows a lot.”  Anon

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