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Learn about the various nest types of stinging insects, including honey bees, bumble bees, yellowjackets, and mud daubers, and how they build and defend them.

Learn about differences between social and solitary bees, wasps, and hornets, including colony behavior, nesting, and defensive behavior.

This article provides brief descriptions of common urban pests, including cockroaches, bed bugs, ants, moths, and more.

Winter meeting season is upon us. Educators, growers, and industry members are working together to get meetings posted and advertised where they are easily found.

This video provides tips on presenting the Poison Prevention Program to students to help them learn ways to control pests while promoting safety in the home.

Extension professionals and pesticide industry representatives consistently reminded growers to read the pesticide label thoroughly and observe all precautions listed on the label.

This is a summary of some common water quality parameters that may cause problems in ponds and how to detect and treat them.

When assessing the various procedures and equipment used in a greenhouse, keep in mind the threat of pathogen, mite, and insect population development.

Find out how to sign up to have your air blast sprayer or boom sprayer calibrated.

An exploration of how native species shape healthy ecosystems—and why ecological context matters more than plant origins.

Many of you may have seen the winter meeting presentation on the top tips for pesticide applicators. Here are a few of the tips included in that presentation.

Designed for K-4th graders, this activity book, with tips for kids and adults, includes sections on living organisms, what is a pest, IPM, and poison prevention.

Find information about formulations, what common household products can be used to represent pesticide formulations, and exercise sheets.

Responding immediately and appropriately when pesticide exposure is suspected will help minimize the effects of exposure and, in extreme cases, may save a life.

This article discusses bed bug biology and habitat and describes how an Integrated Pest Management program for bed bugs should include identification and surveillance along with various cultural, mechanical, and chemical control options.

Read the pesticide label for specific disposal instructions.

Learn how to access information in the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture's PaPlants website and how being a registered user can provide even more information.

This Pesticide Education demonstration introduces biomagnification – when organisms accumulate chemical residues from organisms they eat in the food chain.

With wettable powder pesticide, using volume to estimate the weight could result in crop damage.

Use this personal protective equipment (PPE) activity to understand necessary first actions when responding to a pesticide spill and needed components of a spill kit.

This EPA website provides training, outreach, and other resource materials for applicators and others interested in the requirements of using soil fumigants safely.

Seeing Double? In the world of Pests and Pesticides, identifying a pest or product can often become confusing. Something that looks like it should be a bad bug or plant could really be a good bug or plant!

Rules of thumb for storage of pesticides

For many toxic chemicals, the respiratory (breathing) system is the quickest and most direct route of entry into the circulatory system.

As a general rule, insecticides are more toxic to pollinators than fungicides and herbicides, but not all insecticides are toxic to pollinators.