[Plantsci] IPM, Science City & Tucson Festival of the Books

[Schumaker, Karen S - (schumake)]

Hi Everyone,

On behalf of Dr. Peter Ellsworth - please add the Arizona Pest Management Center booth to your must see list when you visit the Book Festival this weekend.  Thanks to everyone involved.

Best regards.  Karen

Karen S. Schumaker, Ph.D.
Director and Professor, School of Plant Sciences
University of Arizona

Contact information:
School of Plant Sciences
303 Forbes Hall
1140 E. South Campus Drive
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0036

Phone – Research Office: (520) 621-9635
Phone – Administration Office: (520) 621-7185
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http://ag.arizona.edu/research/schumaker/


The Arizona Pest Management Center will have a booth in the “Science of the Natural World” neighborhood at this year’s Science City taking place March 11th and 12th from 9:30am to 5:30pm at the Tucson Festival of the Books.

We are there to:

1) Introduce the APMC to the general public as our multi-disciplinary, integrated research & Extension function of UA-CALS that is available for anyone to access its resources.

2) Showcase what the group has to offer in terms of publications and diagnostic capabilities, and where and how these resources can be used.

3) Educate & engage the public on hot topic issues (Bees, GMOs, organics, pesticide use, etc.) as questions arise and to inform the public about the group's critical research in these areas.

We are highlighting two books at this event the Handbook on Pests of Community Environments in the Desert Southwest U.S. (Nair et al.) and Natural Enemies of the Southwest: A field guide to the arthropod natural enemies of southwestern field crops (L. Brown et al.).

We will be raffling off a chance to win one of these great books to those that participate in our integrated pest management survey. Along with our survey we will be showcasing our “Is it a pest?” activity where attendees get to decide if the listed organism (bee, sunflower, dandelion, corn smut, etc.) is a pest or not.  Please stop by our APMC booth to say “hi”, support your Entomology, Plant Sciences and other APMC colleagues, take our survey, and answer the question of “is it a pest?”!

Special thanks for EIS graduate student, Naomi Pier, for spearheading and organizing the APMC booth this year!

Peter

Peter C. Ellsworth, Ph.D.
Full Specialist / Professor, IPM Coordinator &
Director, Arizona Pest Management Center
University of Arizona
Department of Entomology
Maricopa Agricultural Center
37860 W. Smith-Enke Road
Maricopa, AZ 85138
peterell at ag.arizona.edu<mailto:peterell at ag.arizona.edu>
Tel: 480-331-APMC



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