Since the early 1970s, the University of Delaware’s Cooperative Extension Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program has coordinated a statewide insect trapping program—which includes black light traps ...

Public concern over perceived hazards of pesticides, increasing costs of conventional pest control, and legislation such as the Endangered Species Act all serve in their own way to advance the ...

Integrated pest management is a strategy to use a variety of common practices to maintain pest pressure or populations below levels considered damaging to plants or causing economic loss. The most ...

Not many people like bugs or rats or weeds. Humans have always dealt with pests .... in their food, in their clothing, on their animals and on themselves. Egyptian mummies had lice attached to hair ...

Frank Zalom knows what a bug's life is all about. Zalom, the 2004 winner of the James H. Meyer Distinguished Achievement Award, also knows how to separate the good bugs from the bad ones. Zalom is a ...

Children spend a significant part of their lives in school. Pest management is an important part of school safety. Integrated Pest Management is a process of managing pests that replies on prevention ...

A new study recently published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) shows that from 2003 to 2008, the use of insecticide active ingredients was reduced by about 90% in University of ...

Plant pathologist Heather Kelly (right) works with graduate student Claire Cooke (left) to collect data from row crop disease treatment experiments. Thanks to integrated pest management programs, ...

The last thing an operator wants a customer to see in the restaurant is a fly or cockroach. To help prevent this unpalatable event, they must choose a pest control provider that can find the cause of ...

San Francisco has some of the greenest parks in the nation. And in our fair city, "green" means organic. Back in 1996, the Board of Supervisors passed a demanding ordinance requiring all of our ...