Upcoming Events

Dates and locations for county HHW collection programs are listed.

Property owners/managers and those responsible for bed bug control at multifamily properties are encouraged to attend. Viewers will gain an understanding of integrated pest management for bed bugs and learn which parts of a control program can be done by staff. Bringing program components in-house may cut costs, improve resident compliance, allow housing to better track the efficacy of its program, and focus prevention-based strategies.

The training will equip you with an understanding about pests, IPM, and the key roles for maintenance staff, pest management contractors, and tenants.

The training will equip you with an understanding about pests, IPM, and the key roles for maintenance staff, pest management contractors, and tenants.

This workshop will help homeowners and forest landowners identify invasive plants and insects and develop strategies for controlling and removing them from their property. Participants will learn if mechanical removal will work or if herbicidal applications are required to control the invasives. A short field trip will illustrate how DCNR is working to control invasives at Nescopeck State Park.

Join PA-WAgN for our annual tour of Rodale Institute. Tour Rodale’s newly established apiary; learn about Organic Dairy Transition; and take a wagon tour of Rodale’s livestock production and composting facilities.

This workshop will is required by the City of Philadelphia for the licensing of Family Providers for safe food handling.

As the pest populations boom, bed bugs can, and will hitchhike into your school. The school can be bed bug free one day and have bed bugs brought in the next. For school administrators and facilities managers, bed bugs arriving at the school can be a recipe for big headaches. The formula for success in dealing with bed bugs is to prepare for the inevitable, and educate everyone. This presentation discusses why bed bugs are such a challenge and how you can be proactive.

Attend this webinar to discover why good IAQ is important to maintaining a healthy and green leaning environment and improved academic performance, and gain in-depth knowledge and insight on how the IAQ Tools for Schools guidance provides simple, low-and no-cost resources, such as the IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit, which any school can use to create healthy learning environments. See real examples of how IAQ Tools for Schools guidance can help schools meet Green Ribbon Schools’ criteria for Pillar Two of the application. Get your questions answered by healthy learning environment champions. Learn about the Green Ribbon Schools program, including its purpose, eligibility, timelines and materials, FAQs and more. This webinar is offered at no cost to participants. Don’t miss your chance to have your questions about the program answered during the webinar. Send your questions to IAQTfSConnector@cadmusgroup.com by June 14, 2012.

Bug Camp for Kids is a fun-filled educational day camp for 8 to 11-year-olds. Learn about insects on exciting field trips with hands-on, minds-on science activities and games covering a broad range of topics: biological, ecological and environmental. Registration deadline is June 10, 2012. Enrollment is limited so register soon. Registration includes collection box, net, insect identification book, camp pictures, T-shirt, diploma and more.

Hosted by the Penn State Extension Crop Management Team. Tour research plots and variety trials to see: Emmer, einkorn, and spelt variety trials (organic & transitioning); Wheat variety trials (soft & hard, winter & spring, heritage & modern varieties are included, organic & transitioning); Fava bean seed production (organic) Heritage hulless oats (non-organic); Soybean performance after different histories of tillage, weed management, and crop rotation (organic). Research and demonstration projects on the tour are supported by the USDA Organic Research and Extension Initiative, the USDA Risk Avoidance and Mitigation Program, and the Northeast SARE Pennsylvania State Program.

Everhart Museum in Scranton will be exhibiting "BEEyond" from 05/04/12 through 09/30/12 in the Maslow Galleries. The Museum has planned a community event from noon till 4 PM on 07/14/12 in conjunction with the summer-long celebration of the honeybee. The Northeast Group of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Sierra Club is going to show the documentary film "Vanishing of the Bees" during the event starting at 1 PM in the Folk Art Room.

National Moth Week brings together everyone interested in moths to celebrate these amazing insects. It is hoped that groups and individuals from all the across the country will spend some time during National Moth Week looking for moths and sharing what they’ve found.

The program will include a farm walk with special emphasis on how Penn Valley Farms manages their soil fertility with cover crops, rotations and humic compost. Penn Valley Farms is a 95-acre farm just outside the town of Lititz in Lancaster County, PA. Field crops, organic free-range egg laying chickens, and compost are all produced under organic certification at the farm. Composting became a part of Penn Valley Farms in the early 90’s. It began on a small scale using a manure spreader to mix the materials and a small crawler loader to turn the rows. In 1994, the first compost turner was brought to the farm, purchased from Midwest Bio-Systems. A one-acre pad was constructed for compost production and later expanded to two acres. Subsequently, a compost screener was built to screen for potting soils and other applications. Since then the production of a high quality humus compost has been implemented.

Ag Progress Days (APD), Pennsylvania's largest outdoor agricultural exposition, will return for its annual three-day run. Sponsored by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, the event is held at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, nine miles southwest of State College on Pa. Route 45.

This year’s conference promises attendees a valuable opportunity to hear presentations and sessions on some of today’s most timely and important structural and urban pesticide issues affecting regulators.

The Great Insect Fair is our annual extravaganza celebrating insects with lots of activities, games, crafts, tasty treats and fun for everyone! The 2012 Fair will be held on September 29th at the Bryce Jordan Center. Admission to the fair is FREE, but donations are accepted and greatly appreciated!