Southeast Pest Management Conference 2009

BCS (Best Control Strategies) Champions

May 3-6, 2009

 

MEETING HANDOUT

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Monday, May 4

 

8:30 am – 9:30 am          Best Control Strategies (BCS) for Ants - Roberto Pereira, UF/IFAS

                                      

                                       How to Score Touchdowns on Super Colony Ants - Ricky Vazquez, UF/IFAS

 

9:50 am – 10:50 am        Best Control Strategies (BCS) for Domestic and Peridomestic Cockroaches  - Barbie Bayer and Cory Goeltzenleuchter, UF/IFAS

                                      

                                       Sleep Peacefully Before the Big Game: Bedbug Sexual Conflict  - Margie Pfiester, UF/IFAS

 

11:05 am – 12 noon       Put on Your Game Face for Fly Control — Joe Diclaro, UF/IFAS

 

1:30 pm – 3:10 pm          A Novel Way to Test the Traveling Capacity of Larvicides  — Stephanie Larrick, UF/IFAS

                                      

                                       Mosquito Adulticide Methods — Alex Chaskapoulou, UF/IFAS

 

                                       Mosquito Control: Larvicide Methods — Ryan Allen, UF/IFAS

 

                                       Silver Bullets for Silverfish: A Forgotten Pest — Chad Andrews, UF/IFAS

 

3:25 pm – 5:05 pm          Heat for Insect Control — Roberto Pereira, UF/IFAS, and Wayne Walker, Housing/UF

                                                Handout 1                    Handout2

                                      

                                       The Offensive Line: Pesticides — Paul Bello

 

Tuesday, May 5

 

8:30 am – 9:30 am          What Makes Termites BCS Champions: Foraging Behavior  - Chad Andrews, UF/IFAS

 

9:50 am – 10:50 am        We are the Champions: Florida Termites - Rudy Scheffrahn, UF/IFAS

 

11:05 am – 12 noon       BCS Referees Control the Game: Regulation of Pest Management Companies  - Marlene Czerniak, FDACS

 

1:30 pm – 2:20 pm          Looking for a Championship Over WDOs  - Dan Suiter, UGa

 

2:20 pm – 3:10 pm          Gatorade for Champions: Termites Need Moisture — Wai-Han Chan, UF/IFAS

 

                                       BCS Turf is Green: Greenest Termite Control Strategies — Clay Scherer, DuPont

 

3:25 pm – 5:05 pm          The Play Book: New Termiticide Modes of Action - Dan Suiter, UGa, and

                                      

                                       Pesticide Activity - Clay Scherer, DuPont

                                                Handout 1        Handout 2        Handout 3

 

9:50 am – 11:45 am        DonŐt Fumble Your Fumigation - Paul Mitola, FDAC

 

Wednesday, May 6

 

8:30 am – 9:30 am          Recruiting Class News: Newly Introduced Landscape Pests - Carrie Harmon, Nat. Plant Diag. Netw.

 

 9:50 am – 10:40 am       Protect Your Turf: Landscape Nematode Management  - Billy Crow, UF/IFAS

 

10:55 am – 11:45 am      Best Control Strategies (BCS) for Newly Introduced Landscape Pests - Monica Elliot, UF/IFAS

 

1:15 pm – 2:05 pm          Cleaning Up the Playing Field: Products for Landscape Weed Management - Bob Stamps, UF/IFAS

 

2:05 pm – 2:55 pm          Training from the Ground Up: Managing Tree and Shrub Root Health  - Ed Gilman, UF/IFAS

                                                Circle Cutting                Circle Removing

 

3:10 pm – 4:50 pm          Preventing the Movement of Fertilizer and Pesticides into Groundwater - Laurie Trenholm, UF/IFAS

                                      

               Management of Pesticide Poisoning - Phil Koehler and Roberto Pereira, UF/IFAS