June 25, 2002

In this issue:

* Introduction to the newsletter

* Pest Management Workgroup Conference Set for October 28-29, 2002

* Meetings and Events

* Funding Opportunities

* New ANR Pest Management Publications

* Welcome New ANR Academic Staff

This is the first issue of what we hope will be a regularly issued e-newsletter covering topics of interest to everyone engaged in pest management related activities in DANR. The primary purposes of the workgroup are to foster interdisciplinary exchange between the pest management sciences and to increase county-campus networking and cooperation in the area of pest management. This newsletter will be one tool we can use to achieve these goals. We have designed this newsletter to link to our workgroup web site at http://groups.ucanr.org/pm/. The web site will contain newsletter archives as well as more detailed information on many topics.

We need your help as workgroup members. The purpose of the newsletter is to keep people across the state informed about pest management news and activities. Regular features of this newsletter will include a report of workgroup activities; lists of conferences, meetings and events; links to funding opportunities; new ANR publications related to pest management; and new ANR staff in Pest Management. To pull this off successfully, we need you to let us know what’s happening in your area. Please contact newsletter editor Cheryl Wilen at cawilen@ucdavis.edu with information to include in our next issue—due out in early September.

We hope you will find this newsletter useful and that you will give us feedback about what should be included. We have sent this newsletter to everyone in ANR who has been identified as having an interest in pest management. If you do not wish to be included in these mailings please let us know and we will remove you from the list.

The Pest Management Workgroup biannual meeting will be held in Sacramento at the Embassy Suites Hotel on October 28-29, 2000. Please mark these dates on your calendar. The agenda is still under development by the workgroup steering committee but will include breakout groups on various topics, updates from pest management workgroups, a business meeting to keep you abreast of ANR pest management issues statewide, several forums on cutting edge topics of cross-disciplinary interest and an invited panel of clientele to tell us what we can do to stay relevant. The agenda will be finalized in August. Please contact workgroup co-chair Mary Louise Flint at mlflint@ucdavis.edu with ideas. Remember that a critical function of these workgroup meetings is to network between disciplines, campuses, AES-UCCE, county offices and campuses. We expect over 100 attendees and we need you there!

For a complete list of ANR meetings and events related to pest management, go to our web page at http://groups.ucanr.org/pm/Events/ . Please let us know of any meetings we can add to this list!

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Rick Melnicoe is keeping a list of funding opportunities related to pest management up-to-date on the California Pest Management Web Site at http://www.wrpmc.ucdavis.edu/Ca/CaFunding/index.html

(If you are aware of funding sources not covered at this site, please let Rick know at rsmelnicoe@ucdavis.edu)

The latest issue of the UC Plant Protection Quarterly was issued in April 2002. It features an article on "Establishing a Relationship between San Jose Scale Growth Stage and Spur Infestation in Almond as well as profiles of new ANR academic staff in pest management. http://www.uckac.edu/ppq/

The Second Edition of Integrated Pest Management for Almonds was released in January 2002. Go to http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/IPMPROJECT/ADS/manual_almonds.html to view a table of contents.

Pest Notes (short answer publications for home, garden and landscape) that have been released or revised since January 2002 include California Ground Squirrel, Creeping Woodsorrel and Bermuda Buttercup, Dodder, Giant Whitefly, Lawn Diseases, Pocket Gophers, Rabbits, Spotted Spurge, Wild Blackberries, Sudden oak Death, and Voles. View all the Pest Notes at http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.home.html .

UCIPM Pest Management Guidelines for 19 crops have been updated since January 2002. All revised PMGs are now available as PDF files as well as HTML files to facilitate printing. Distribution of paper copies of the pest management guidelines to UCCE county offices is being phased out. County offices can refer clientele to the web or print off PDF files. View Pest Management Guidelines at http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/.

* Anil Shrestha - IPM Weed Ecologist, Statewide IPM Program, KAC  559-646-6534  anil@uckac.edu

* David Haviland - Entomology Farm Advisor, Kern County Telephone 661/868-6000 (7/1/02)

* Marshall Johnson, Extension Entomologist, Dept Entomology, UCR (located at KAC)  559-646-6519  mjohnson@uckac.edu

* Greg Lanzaro, Director , UC Mosquito Program, located at UC Davis in the Entomology Department. 530-752-6983

* John Vogel, Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology,(mechanisms of disease resistance) UC Riverside 909787-2754 john.vogel@ucr.edu

* Karen Wikler, Environmental Horticulture Advisor, Alameda County 510-639-1252. (Karen has a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology and is likely to be taking on pest management as well as general horticulture projects.)

* Frank Wong, Extension Plant Pathology Specialist and Plant Pathologist, Turf Diseases, UC Riverside 909-787-2936 frank.wong@ucdavis.edu

Please let us know about any new academic staff we have missed!

Thank you!

Pest Management Workgroup Co-Chairs:

Mary Louise Flint
Director, IPM E& P and
Extension Entomologist
UC Davis
mlflint@ucdavis.edu

Cheryl Wilen
IPM Area Advisor—South Coast
UCCE San Diego
cawilen@ucdavis.edu