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June 2021: Volume 18, Issue 1
Insights - June 2021: Volume 18, Issue 1 - Northeastern IPM Center
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Center Virtual Conference Presents Overview of Current IPM Projects                                                                                            Northeastern

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        n March 31, 2021, the Northeastern IPM Center hosted the latest      •   Amara Dunn, Biocontrol Specialist, New York State IPM Program                        Center
        installment of the Northeast IPM Research Update Conference.         •   John Inguagiato, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
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            The purpose of the conference was to increase collabora-         •   Daphne Munroe, Associate Professor, Rutgers University                        Cornell University
tion and awareness of current IPM-related research and extension in          •   David Owens, Extension Specialist, University of Delaware                     Ithaca, NY 14853
the Northeast, using an accessible, engaging format. The conference          •   Mahfuz Rahman, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, West
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                June 2021
delivered brief overviews of project highlights through five-minute pre-            Virginia University
recorded presentations followed by live Q&A with the presenters.             •   Joseph Roberts, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Clemson
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Northeastern IPM Center Names Maggie Lewis,
    Featured projects included those funded by the Center’s Partnership             University (discussing work performed during previous assistant                                                                                                                                                                       Inside
Grants Program, the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and                  professorship at University of Maryland)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Kathy Murray Recipients of 2020 Award
Education (NE SARE) Program, and USDA-NIFA’s Applied Research and            •   Kim Skyrm, State Apiarist, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural                                                                                                                                                                      4Spotted Lanternfly
Development Program (ARDP) and Extension Implementation Program                     Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Updates — 3
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Award recognizes
(EIP).                                                                       •   Lisa Tewksbury, Research Associate, University of Rhode Island
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4Northeastern IPM             accomplishments in IPM
                                                                             •   Changlu Wang, Extension Specialist, Rutgers University
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Center Announces            by students, professionals
                                                                             •   Veronica Yurchak, Graduate Student, University of Maryland

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Presenters                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Recipients of 2021
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Partnership Grants — 4              he Northeastern
• Sam Anderson, Urban Agriculture Specialist, Cornell Cooperative                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Integrated Pest Manage-
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    Extension                                                                                                                                                                                      A brown marmorated stink bug feeds on a red pepper plant.                                                              4Call for Submissions and             ment (IPM) Center has
• Terence Bradshaw, Research Assistant Professor, University of              To view the conference agenda or watch the recording, visit                                                           Photo by Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University,                                                                          Photos — 4                  announced the two recipi-
    Vermont                                                                  neipmc.org/go/tSES.                                                                                                   flic.kr/p/fEcLmK (CC BY-SA 2.0).                                                                                                                     ents of its 2020 Outstanding
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4Center Virtual               Achievements in Integrated Pest
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Conference Presents
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Management Award: Kathy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Overview of Current IPM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Murray, IPM program coordina-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Projects — 5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        tor for the Maine Department
NIPMCC Releases Whitepapers Backing IPM Support, Investment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               4NIPMCC Releases              of Agriculture, Conservation,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Whitepapers Backing         and Forestry (DACF); and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            IPM Support,                Maggie Lewis, PhD candidate
New issue papers discuss role of IPM in combating
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Investment — 5              in the University of Maryland,
resistance and invasive species, safeguarding food supply,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        College Park, Department of
and minimizing economic losses                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Kathy Murray using giant cockroaches to engage youth and families in learn-
                                                                                                                                                            #2018-70006-28882.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Center funded an SLF working group. The following year, the group            4Tracy Leskey Named           Entomology.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ing about integrated pest management. Photo provided by Kathy Murray.
                                                                                                                                                            Pest Management, Regional Coordination Program, Grant
      he National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Commit-
                                                                                                                                                            Institute of Food and Agriculture, Crop Protection and                           a more recent invasive pest, the spotted lanternfly (SLF). In 2018, the        Scientist of the Year for       The annual award, launched
                                                                                                                                                            The Northeastern IPM Center is supported by the National                             Leskey has also played a key role in the coordinated response to           Brown Marmorated Stink
      tee (NIPMCC) has released a series of whitepapers explaining how                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  in 2019, recognizes individuals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             tors of that project.                                                          Bug Research — 6
      pests threaten the security of the U.S. food supply, how an IPM                                                                                      Jana Hexter, Kevin Judd, David Lane, Susannah Reese, Mike Webb.                                                                                                                              or organizations whose work on IPM in the Northeast
                                                                                                                                                           Designer. Northeastern IPM Center: Nancy Cusumano, Deborah G. Grantham,           Research Initiative (SCRI) since 2011. Leskey remains one of six co-direc-                                                                                              About This Year’s Winners
approach offers the most effective means of managing pests, and why                                                                                        IPM Insights: Deborah G. Grantham, Director; Mike Webb, Editor; Kevin Judd,                                                                                                                  deserves special recognition, with a goal of honoring
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             much broader BMSB project funded through the USDA’s Specialty Crop
ongoing investment in IPM research and extension is critical to keeping                                                                                                                                                     Credits                                                                                                                     one professional (or organization) and one student
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             nership Grants Program in 2010. That group laid the groundwork for a                                                                                                    Professional Honoree: Kathy Murray
pace with the ever-evolving nature of these threats.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    each year. Nominations come from peers whose work
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             originally funded through the Center’s Part-
                                                                                   enjoying free rein in novel environments that lack the natural con-                                                                                                                                                                                                  relates to IPM in various capacities. Each winner re-        Over the course of her twenty-plus-year career, Kathy
                                                                                                                                                         announcement at neipmc.org/go/pCDt.                                                 project director of the BMSB working group
• U.S. Agriculture Is Vulnerable to Weeds, Diseases, Insects and Other             trol agents often present in their native habitats.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ceives $500 and agrees to provide a story and/or host a      Murray has earned recognition for her work on many
                                                                                                                                                         including this year’s other recipients, see the official                            history of collaborating with Leskey, who was
    Pest Threats: An overview of both the importance and fragility of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   webinar for the Center.                                      specific pests. She has developed improved meth-
                                                                                                                                                             To learn more about the USDA-ARS awards,                                            The Northeastern IPM Center has a long
    American agriculture, its economic significance, and its specific                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       The Center presented the awards virtually this year,     ods for managing filth flies and beetles in livestock
                                                                             About the NIPMCC                                                            well-deserved recognition.                                                          in Kearneysville, WV.
    vulnerability to pests.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.                        operations and performed mosquito monitoring
                                                                                                                                                         eastern IPM Center congratulates Leskey for this                                    USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station
                                                                             The National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Committee                                                                                                                                                                                                                 “We were pleased to receive such an enthusiastic         with Maine’s vector-borne disease working group to
                                                                                                                                                         to arrive in the U.S. in recent history. The North-                                 Leskey is research leader and director at the
• The Growing Threat of Pests Resistant to Pesticides and Other              (NIPMCC) is a committee of the Experiment Station Committee on Orga-                                                                                                                                                                                                       response to our call for nominations,” said Deborah          reduce outbreaks of West Nile virus and eastern equine
                                                                                                                                                         against some of the most damaging invasive pests                                    sive brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB).
    Management Tactics: An explanation of pest resistance and how            nization and Policy (ESCOP) and the Extension Committee on Organiza-                                                                                                                                                                                                       G. Grantham, Center director. “The glowing testimo-          encephalitis.
                                                                                                                                                         researching sustainable management strategies                                       management strategies against the inva-
    it develops, why traditional management methods are vulnerable           tion and Policy (ECOP) within the Association of Public and Land-grant                                                                                                                                                                                                     nials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Margaret               But she is perhaps best known for her work in
                                                                                                                                                             Tracy Leskey has built a distinguished career                                   honorees, citing her work in developing
    to resistance, and how IPM undercuts the mechanisms by which             Universities (APLU) governing structure.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned          school IPM. Since 2002, when Maine’s Board of Pes-
    resistance develops while offering alternate methods to control
    already-resistant pests.
                                                                                 It assists in development of reports and strategic plans on pest
                                                                             management issues and pursues activities that facilitate coordination
                                                                                                                                                         co-directors.
                                                                                                                                                         SCRI grant of its own, with Leskey as one of seven
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Leskey among its Scientist of the Year
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Service (USDA-ARS) has named Tracy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                T                                       widespread recognition for their work on critical
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        pest-management issues—Murray as an experienced
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     ticides Control instituted rules that required schools
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     to practice IPM, Murray has developed and provided
                                                                                                                                                         leveraged its initial accomplishments to earn an                                            he USDA’s Agricultural Research
                                                                             and collaboration nationally among and between IPM research and                                                                                                                                                                                                            professional, and Lewis as a graduate student just           extensive guidance and training materials to help
• Invasive Pests: A $120 Billion-a-Year Threat to America’s Farms and        extension at the land-grant universities, and between the land-grants                                                                                                                                                                        Contact Us                    starting her career.”
    Lands: A primer on invasive pests and the unique management              and federal agencies involved in IPM.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Research                                                           607-255-8815
    challenges they pose—and the economic damage they cause—by                   Learn more at escop.info/committee/nipmcc/.                                                                                                Tracy Leskey Named Scientist of the Year for                                                  northeastipm@cornell.edu                                                                  See “Award” on Page 2

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Insights - June 2021: Volume 18, Issue 1 - Northeastern IPM Center
Award
Continued from Cover Page                                                                                                                                      Spotted Lanternfly Updates                                                                                                                                 Northeastern IPM Center Announces Recipients of
                                                                                                                                                               By Nancy Cusumano                                                                                                                                          2021 Partnership Grants
school personnel effectively

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understand and incorporate                                                                                                                                              lthough efforts to develop management techniques to control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Annual grant program supports IPM research and extension in the Northeast
IPM into their broad range of                                                                                                                                           the invasive spotted lanternfly (SLF) are well underway—includ-
operations.                                                                                                                                                             ing current work funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Research

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    Outside the region, Murray                                                                                                                                 Initiative grant awarded in 2019—as expected, the pest’s presence and                                                                                             he Northeastern Integrated Pest Management
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This Year’s Funded Projects
has also worked on national                                                                                                                                    influence have continued to spread.                                                                                                                               (IPM) Center has announced the recipients of its                                                              Call for Submissions
materials, managed grants, and                                                                                                                                     Since fall of 2020, there have been a number of finds—not always                                                                                              2021 Partnership Grants.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Applied Research                                         and Photos
been published by the EPA.                                                                                                                                     indicating established populations, but generally illustrating the pest’s                                                                                      Each year, through a competitive request-for-ap-
    “I have had the great                                                                                                                                      penchant for spreading, particularly with inadvertent human assistance.                                                                                    plications (RFA) process, the Center’s IPM Partnership      Early season soil applications of entomopathogenic       Do you have IPM-related
fortune to find work I love and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Grants Program distributes roughly $200,000 in fund-        nematodes in high-tunnel IPM (Anna Wallingford,          news or an IPM story to tell?
the support of mentors and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ing to projects that further the mission of the Center,     University of New Hampshire)                             We value the perspectives
                                                                                                                                                               Recent Timeline
colleagues,” said Murray. “I am                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           address or identify IPM priorities for the Northeast, and                                                            of growers, implementers,
truly honored and humbled to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              benefit the region at large.                                Evaluation of a grower-friendly attract-and-kill sys-    policymakers, and others on
                                                                                                                                                               October 2020
receive this recognition for our                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Each funded project falls under one of three            tem for the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomor-        the front lines of pest man-
efforts to advance IPM to protect                                                                                                                                  Last October, two dead SLF individuals were found in Massachusetts                                                                                     categories: applied research, communications, and           pha halys (Jaime Pinero, University of Massachusetts)    agement, and we welcome
people, the environment, and                                                                                                                                   and egg masses were found in Maine. Both had been transported in on                                                                                        working groups.                                                                                                      guest submissions for future
our food and fiber supply.”                                                                                                                                    plant material that originated in Pennsylvania. The egg masses were                                                                                                                                                                                                             newsletter editions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                February 2021                                                                                                                                           Communications
    In her nomination materi-                                                                                                                                  empty and presumably had hatched in Pennsylvania, not in Maine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Whether you’d like to write
als, Murray was described as a                                                                                                                                     The imported plant materials should have been inspected before                  In February, Virginia expanded its quarantine area by two more                                                                                       Promoting IPM practices for im-        something new for us or sub-
“tireless teacher and advocate”                                                                                                                                leaving Pennsylvania, in accordance with the quarantine rules.                   counties, Warren and Clarke.                                                                                                                            proved perennial forage manage-        mit something you’ve already
who “has always gone well                                                                                                                                          Live populations were discovered in New Canaan and Greenwich,                   Several New Jersey counties were added to the map, reflecting that                                                                                   ment on owned and rented land          had published elsewhere—
beyond the call of duty, always                                                                                                                                Connecticut, and in Jefferson County, Ohio, along the Ohio River and             most of the state is now infested.                                                                                                                      in the Northeast (Kristin Williams,    given reprint permission from
available to lend a hand for any                                                                                                                               adjacent to the known western Pennsylvania population in Beaver County.                                                                                                                                                                  University of Vermont)                 that publication—we want to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                March 2021
IPM effort.”                                                                                                                                                       The SLF map maintained by the New York State IPM Program was                                                                                                                                                                                                                hear from you!
                                                                                                                                                               updated to reflect infestations in these Connecticut and Ohio counties,              Pennsylvania added eight more counties to its quarantine, painting
Student Honoree: Maggie                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Working Groups
                                                                                                                                                               in addition to Washington County in Maryland.                                    a swath westward across the whole state. The counties added were                                                                                                                               Do you have high-quality
Lewis
                                      Maggie Lewis speaking about her research on spray coverage in caneberries to an audience of growers, extension agents,                                                                                    Cambria, Cameron, Franklin, Lackawanna, Montour, Pike, Wayne, and                                                                                       Municipal rodent IPM (Matt Frye,       photos of pests, pest damage,
                                      and university researchers at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center Horticultural Twilight Meeting and      November 2020
At the time of her nomination,                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Westmoreland. These counties are not completely infested but have                                                                                       Cornell University)                    pest-management methods,
                                      Tour. Photo by Susan Barnes/University of Maryland Extension.
Maggie Lewis was still a gradu-                                                                                                                                    In November, a population was discovered in Ithaca, NY, by an ento-          some municipalities with known infestations.                                                                                                                                                   or people demonstrating IPM
ate student, working under the                                                                                                                                 mology undergraduate student. Adults and egg masses were discovered                  The 2021 Spotted Lanternfly Summit was held virtually over the                                                                                      Next-generation support for            practices? Your images could
guidance of Kelly Hamby, associate professor and extension specialist            to work with stakeholders to advance new and more sustainable IPM             around the parking area of a student apartment complex. Once 2021                course of three full days, featuring presentations on new research,                                                                                     Northeast tree fruit IPM (Terence      help us tell the story—and
in the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Entomology.           programs.”                                                                    arrived, a springtime removal of trees in the vicinity was conducted to          extension, and communications efforts and outreach to stakeholders                                                                                      Bradshaw, University of Vermont)       promote awareness—of cur-
She defended her PhD in March and graduated in May.                                  Lewis’s nominations expressed confidence that she is “well positioned     stop any undiscovered egg masses from hatching.                                  and industry.                                                                                                                                                                                  rent and emerging pest- and
    Lewis’s doctoral work has focused on spotted wing drosophila                 to advance the field of IPM” and is “passionate about IPM research and            Dead adults were found in Michigan, but there remain no known live               Visit StopSLF.org to watch the summit presentations. Also available                                                                                                                        pest-management issues.
(SWD), a significant pest of soft-skinned fruit crops that, at this time, is     education.”                                                                   populations. The dead adults arrived on freight or trucks from infested areas.   to view is the recording of Spotted Lanternfly 101, a presentation and                                                                                                                             If we use your photos, they
best controlled through pesticides. Her work has laid the foundation for                                                                                           In New York, large infestations were found in Orangeburg, Port               Q&A session held the week before the summit and intended to provide                                                                                                                            could appear in any of our
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        About the Program
developing alternative tactics and improving management practices.                    “The glowing testimonials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Marga-     Jervis, and Staten Island.                                                       attendees with foundational SLF knowledge key to deriving maximum                                                                                                                              channels or collateral, includ-
    Lewis has invested time and energy not just in research, but also in              ret Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned widespread           The map was updated to include Tompkins, Orange, and Rockland                benefit from the summit.                                                                                                                                Learn more about the IPM Part-         ing newsletters, brochures,
relationship-building with stakeholders including growers, professional               recognition for their work on critical pest-management issues.”          Counties, as well as Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens in the New                                                                                                                                                                      nership Grants Program by visiting     websites, and social media,
societies, and extension personnel, seeking to get constituents engaged               – Deborah G. Grantham, director, Northeastern IPM Center                 York metropolitan area. Also added was Mineral County in West Virginia.                                                                                                                                                                  neipmc.org/go/bfgs.                    and you’ll be credited as the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Resources
in the process of developing and implementing IPM methods to control                                                                                               Also this month, Brian Walsh, a Penn State Extension horticulture                                                                                                                                                                         For those interested in seeking   photographer.
SWD.                                                                                                                                                           educator in Berks County, PA, presented a webinar—Spotted Lanternfly:            Stop SLF (www.stopslf.org)—The USDA SCRI-funded project to research                                                                                     funding through the program, the
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    Though still a student herself, Lewis has shared her knowledge and                                                                                         Impacts and Strategies for Ornamental Plants—a useful overview of this              and develop control methods for spotted lanternfly, maintained by                                                                                    Center will release an RFA for the     Please visit neipmc.org/go/
enthusiasm for IPM by mentoring undergraduate researchers. She has               For more information about the Outstanding Achievements in IPM Award—         pest and its implications. Visit www.hriresearch.org/thrive-web-series              the Northeastern IPM Center.                                                                                                                         2021 round of grants sometime this     ncfs for more information.
also been published multiple times, obtained $81,000 in competitive              including details about who is eligible to nominate candidates or receive     to view this and other webinars in the Horticultural Research Institute                                                                                                                                                                  fall.
research grants, and been invited to speak at multiple symposia.                 the award and the types of accomplishments considered worthy of recogni-      tHRIve web series.                                                               Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly (extension.psu.edu/spotted-      Image credits – stink bug nymphs: Gary Bernon, USDA APHIS, Bugwood.
    “I have been really fortunate to work alongside and learn from               tion—see this year’s call for nominations at neipmc.org/go/RERJ.                                                                                                  lanternfly)—Penn State was the lead institution on the 2018 North-     org; pears: Keith Weller, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org;
                                                                                                                                                               January 2021
a great group of people, and to find a career that I love,” said Lewis.              Look for the 2021 call for nominations to be released in spring or sum-                                                                                       eastern IPM Center-funded working group that laid the groundwork       mouse: Ed Freytag, City of New Orleans, Bugwood.org; blacklegged tick:
“I was initially drawn to the field of entomology because of the ap-             mer 2021.                                                                         Berkley County, in western Maryland, was added to the map. There                for the USDA SCRI grant, and the grant’s project director, Julie       Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; tarping:
plied-pest-management aspect, and I look forward to continuing                                                                                                 also were dead individuals discovered in three North Carolina counties.             Urban, is an associate research professor at Penn State.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sonja Birthisel, University of Maine.

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Insights - June 2021: Volume 18, Issue 1 - Northeastern IPM Center
Award
Continued from Cover Page                                                                                                                                      Spotted Lanternfly Updates                                                                                                                                 Northeastern IPM Center Announces Recipients of
                                                                                                                                                               By Nancy Cusumano                                                                                                                                          2021 Partnership Grants
school personnel effectively

                                                                                                                                                               A
understand and incorporate                                                                                                                                              lthough efforts to develop management techniques to control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Annual grant program supports IPM research and extension in the Northeast
IPM into their broad range of                                                                                                                                           the invasive spotted lanternfly (SLF) are well underway—includ-
operations.                                                                                                                                                             ing current work funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Research

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          T
    Outside the region, Murray                                                                                                                                 Initiative grant awarded in 2019—as expected, the pest’s presence and                                                                                             he Northeastern Integrated Pest Management
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This Year’s Funded Projects
has also worked on national                                                                                                                                    influence have continued to spread.                                                                                                                               (IPM) Center has announced the recipients of its                                                              Call for Submissions
materials, managed grants, and                                                                                                                                     Since fall of 2020, there have been a number of finds—not always                                                                                              2021 Partnership Grants.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Applied Research                                         and Photos
been published by the EPA.                                                                                                                                     indicating established populations, but generally illustrating the pest’s                                                                                      Each year, through a competitive request-for-ap-
    “I have had the great                                                                                                                                      penchant for spreading, particularly with inadvertent human assistance.                                                                                    plications (RFA) process, the Center’s IPM Partnership      Early season soil applications of entomopathogenic       Do you have IPM-related
fortune to find work I love and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Grants Program distributes roughly $200,000 in fund-        nematodes in high-tunnel IPM (Anna Wallingford,          news or an IPM story to tell?
the support of mentors and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ing to projects that further the mission of the Center,     University of New Hampshire)                             We value the perspectives
                                                                                                                                                               Recent Timeline
colleagues,” said Murray. “I am                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           address or identify IPM priorities for the Northeast, and                                                            of growers, implementers,
truly honored and humbled to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              benefit the region at large.                                Evaluation of a grower-friendly attract-and-kill sys-    policymakers, and others on
                                                                                                                                                               October 2020
receive this recognition for our                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Each funded project falls under one of three            tem for the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomor-        the front lines of pest man-
efforts to advance IPM to protect                                                                                                                                  Last October, two dead SLF individuals were found in Massachusetts                                                                                     categories: applied research, communications, and           pha halys (Jaime Pinero, University of Massachusetts)    agement, and we welcome
people, the environment, and                                                                                                                                   and egg masses were found in Maine. Both had been transported in on                                                                                        working groups.                                                                                                      guest submissions for future
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                February 2021
our food and fiber supply.”                                                                                                                                    plant material that originated in Pennsylvania. The egg masses were                                                                                                                                                                                                             newsletter editions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Communications
    In her nomination materi-                                                                                                                                  empty and presumably had hatched in Pennsylvania, not in Maine.                     In February, Virginia expanded its quarantine area by two more                                                                                                                                  Whether you’d like to write
als, Murray was described as a                                                                                                                                     Live populations were discovered in New Canaan and Greenwich,                counties, Warren and Clarke.                                                                                                                            Promoting IPM practices for im-        something new for us or sub-
“tireless teacher and advocate”                                                                                                                                Connecticut, and in Jefferson County, Ohio, along the Ohio River and                Several New Jersey counties were added to the map, reflecting that                                                                                   proved perennial forage manage-        mit something you’ve already
who “has always gone well                                                                                                                                      adjacent to the known western Pennsylvania population in Beaver County.          most of the state is now infested.                                                                                                                      ment on owned and rented land          had published elsewhere—
beyond the call of duty, always                                                                                                                                    The SLF map maintained by the New York State IPM Program was                                                                                                                                                                         in the Northeast (Kristin Williams,    given reprint permission from
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                March 2021
available to lend a hand for any                                                                                                                               updated to reflect infestations in these Connecticut and Ohio counties,                                                                                                                                                                  University of Vermont)                 that publication—we want to
IPM effort.”                                                                                                                                                   in addition to Washington County in Maryland.                                        Pennsylvania added eight more counties to its quarantine, painting                                                                                                                         hear from you!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                a swath westward across the whole state. The counties added were
Student Honoree: Maggie                                                                                                                                        November 2020                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Working Groups
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Cambria, Cameron, Franklin, Lackawanna, Montour, Pike, Wayne, and                                                                                                                              Do you have high-quality
Lewis
                                      Maggie Lewis speaking about her research on spray coverage in caneberries to an audience of growers, extension agents,       In November, a population was discovered in Ithaca, NY, by an ento-          Westmoreland. These counties are not completely infested but have                                                                                       Municipal rodent IPM (Matt Frye,       photos of pests, pest damage,
At the time of her nomination,        and university researchers at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center Horticultural Twilight Meeting and      mology undergraduate student. Adults and egg masses were discovered              some municipalities with known infestations.                                                                                                            Cornell University)                    pest-management methods,
                                      Tour. Photo by Susan Barnes/University of Maryland Extension.
Maggie Lewis was still a gradu-                                                                                                                                around the parking area of a student apartment complex. Once 2021                    The 2021 Spotted Lanternfly Summit was held virtually over the                                                                                                                             or people demonstrating IPM
ate student, working under the                                                                                                                                 arrived, a springtime removal of trees in the vicinity was conducted to          course of three full days, featuring presentations on new research,                                                                                     Next-generation support for            practices? Your images could
guidance of Kelly Hamby, associate professor and extension specialist            to work with stakeholders to advance new and more sustainable IPM             stop any undiscovered egg masses from hatching.                                  extension, and communications efforts and outreach to stakeholders                                                                                      Northeast tree fruit IPM (Terence      help us tell the story—and
in the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Entomology.           programs.”                                                                        Dead adults were found in Michigan, but there remain no known live           and industry.                                                                                                                                           Bradshaw, University of Vermont)       promote awareness—of cur-
She defended her PhD in March and graduated in May.                                  Lewis’s nominations expressed confidence that she is “well positioned     populations. The dead adults arrived on freight or trucks from infested areas.       Visit StopSLF.org to watch the summit presentations. Also available                                                                                                                        rent and emerging pest- and
    Lewis’s doctoral work has focused on spotted wing drosophila                 to advance the field of IPM” and is “passionate about IPM research and            In New York, large infestations were found in Orangeburg, Port               to view is the recording of Spotted Lanternfly 101, a presentation and                                                                                                                         pest-management issues.
(SWD), a significant pest of soft-skinned fruit crops that, at this time, is     education.”                                                                   Jervis, and Staten Island.                                                       Q&A session held the week before the summit and intended to provide                                                                                                                                If we use your photos, they
best controlled through pesticides. Her work has laid the foundation for                                                                                           The map was updated to include Tompkins, Orange, and Rockland                attendees with foundational SLF knowledge key to deriving maximum                                                                                                                              could appear in any of our
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        About the Program
developing alternative tactics and improving management practices.                    “The glowing testimonials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Marga-     Counties, as well as Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens in the New              benefit from the summit.                                                                                                                                                                       channels or collateral, includ-
    Lewis has invested time and energy not just in research, but also in              ret Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned widespread       York metropolitan area. Also added was Mineral County in West Virginia.                                                                                                                                                                  Learn more about the IPM Part-         ing newsletters, brochures,
relationship-building with stakeholders including growers, professional               recognition for their work on critical pest-management issues.”              Also this month, Brian Walsh, a Penn State Extension horticulture                                                                                                                                                                    nership Grants Program by visiting     websites, and social media,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Resources
societies, and extension personnel, seeking to get constituents engaged               – Deborah G. Grantham, director, Northeastern IPM Center                 educator in Berks County, PA, presented a webinar—Spotted Lanternfly:                                                                                                                                                                    neipmc.org/go/bfgs.                    and you’ll be credited as the
in the process of developing and implementing IPM methods to control                                                                                           Impacts and Strategies for Ornamental Plants—a useful overview of this           Stop SLF (www.stopslf.org)—The USDA SCRI-funded project to research                                                                                          For those interested in seeking   photographer.
SWD.                                                                                                                                                           pest and its implications. Visit www.hriresearch.org/thrive-web-series              and develop control methods for spotted lanternfly, maintained by                                                                                    funding through the program, the
                                                                                 Read More
    Though still a student herself, Lewis has shared her knowledge and                                                                                         to view this and other webinars in the Horticultural Research Institute             the Northeastern IPM Center.                                                                                                                         Center will release an RFA for the     Please visit neipmc.org/go/
enthusiasm for IPM by mentoring undergraduate researchers. She has               For more information about the Outstanding Achievements in IPM Award—         tHRIve web series.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       2021 round of grants sometime this     ncfs for more information.
also been published multiple times, obtained $81,000 in competitive              including details about who is eligible to nominate candidates or receive                                                                                      Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly (extension.psu.edu/spotted-                                                                                    fall.
                                                                                                                                                               January 2021
research grants, and been invited to speak at multiple symposia.                 the award and the types of accomplishments considered worthy of recogni-                                                                                          lanternfly)—Penn State was the lead institution on the 2018 North-     Image credits – stink bug nymphs: Gary Bernon, USDA APHIS, Bugwood.
    “I have been really fortunate to work alongside and learn from               tion—see this year’s call for nominations at neipmc.org/go/RERJ.                  Berkley County, in western Maryland, was added to the map. There                eastern IPM Center-funded working group that laid the groundwork       org; pears: Keith Weller, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org;
a great group of people, and to find a career that I love,” said Lewis.              Look for the 2021 call for nominations to be released in spring or sum-   also were dead individuals discovered in three North Carolina counties.             for the USDA SCRI grant, and the grant’s project director, Julie       mouse: Ed Freytag, City of New Orleans, Bugwood.org; blacklegged tick:
“I was initially drawn to the field of entomology because of the ap-             mer 2021.                                                                                                                                                         Urban, is an associate research professor at Penn State.               Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; tarping:
plied-pest-management aspect, and I look forward to continuing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sonja Birthisel, University of Maine.

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Award
Continued from Cover Page                                                                                                                                      Spotted Lanternfly Updates                                                                                                                                 Northeastern IPM Center Announces Recipients of
                                                                                                                                                               By Nancy Cusumano                                                                                                                                          2021 Partnership Grants
school personnel effectively

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understand and incorporate                                                                                                                                              lthough efforts to develop management techniques to control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Annual grant program supports IPM research and extension in the Northeast
IPM into their broad range of                                                                                                                                           the invasive spotted lanternfly (SLF) are well underway—includ-
operations.                                                                                                                                                             ing current work funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Research

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    Outside the region, Murray                                                                                                                                 Initiative grant awarded in 2019—as expected, the pest’s presence and                                                                                             he Northeastern Integrated Pest Management
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This Year’s Funded Projects
has also worked on national                                                                                                                                    influence have continued to spread.                                                                                                                               (IPM) Center has announced the recipients of its                                                              Call for Submissions
materials, managed grants, and                                                                                                                                     Since fall of 2020, there have been a number of finds—not always                                                                                              2021 Partnership Grants.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Applied Research                                         and Photos
been published by the EPA.                                                                                                                                     indicating established populations, but generally illustrating the pest’s                                                                                      Each year, through a competitive request-for-ap-
    “I have had the great                                                                                                                                      penchant for spreading, particularly with inadvertent human assistance.                                                                                    plications (RFA) process, the Center’s IPM Partnership      Early season soil applications of entomopathogenic       Do you have IPM-related
fortune to find work I love and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Grants Program distributes roughly $200,000 in fund-        nematodes in high-tunnel IPM (Anna Wallingford,          news or an IPM story to tell?
the support of mentors and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ing to projects that further the mission of the Center,     University of New Hampshire)                             We value the perspectives
                                                                                                                                                               Recent Timeline
colleagues,” said Murray. “I am                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           address or identify IPM priorities for the Northeast, and                                                            of growers, implementers,
truly honored and humbled to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              benefit the region at large.                                Evaluation of a grower-friendly attract-and-kill sys-    policymakers, and others on
                                                                                                                                                               October 2020
receive this recognition for our                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Each funded project falls under one of three            tem for the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomor-        the front lines of pest man-
efforts to advance IPM to protect                                                                                                                                  Last October, two dead SLF individuals were found in Massachusetts                                                                                     categories: applied research, communications, and           pha halys (Jaime Pinero, University of Massachusetts)    agement, and we welcome
people, the environment, and                                                                                                                                   and egg masses were found in Maine. Both had been transported in on                                                                                        working groups.                                                                                                      guest submissions for future
our food and fiber supply.”                                                                                                                                    plant material that originated in Pennsylvania. The egg masses were                                                                                                                                                                                                             newsletter editions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                February 2021                                                                                                                                           Communications
    In her nomination materi-                                                                                                                                  empty and presumably had hatched in Pennsylvania, not in Maine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Whether you’d like to write
als, Murray was described as a                                                                                                                                     The imported plant materials should have been inspected before                  In February, Virginia expanded its quarantine area by two more                                                                                       Promoting IPM practices for im-        something new for us or sub-
“tireless teacher and advocate”                                                                                                                                leaving Pennsylvania, in accordance with the quarantine rules.                   counties, Warren and Clarke.                                                                                                                            proved perennial forage manage-        mit something you’ve already
who “has always gone well                                                                                                                                          Live populations were discovered in New Canaan and Greenwich,                   Several New Jersey counties were added to the map, reflecting that                                                                                   ment on owned and rented land          had published elsewhere—
beyond the call of duty, always                                                                                                                                Connecticut, and in Jefferson County, Ohio, along the Ohio River and             most of the state is now infested.                                                                                                                      in the Northeast (Kristin Williams,    given reprint permission from
available to lend a hand for any                                                                                                                               adjacent to the known western Pennsylvania population in Beaver County.                                                                                                                                                                  University of Vermont)                 that publication—we want to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                March 2021
IPM effort.”                                                                                                                                                       The SLF map maintained by the New York State IPM Program was                                                                                                                                                                                                                hear from you!
                                                                                                                                                               updated to reflect infestations in these Connecticut and Ohio counties,              Pennsylvania added eight more counties to its quarantine, painting
Student Honoree: Maggie                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Working Groups
                                                                                                                                                               in addition to Washington County in Maryland.                                    a swath westward across the whole state. The counties added were                                                                                                                               Do you have high-quality
Lewis
                                      Maggie Lewis speaking about her research on spray coverage in caneberries to an audience of growers, extension agents,                                                                                    Cambria, Cameron, Franklin, Lackawanna, Montour, Pike, Wayne, and                                                                                       Municipal rodent IPM (Matt Frye,       photos of pests, pest damage,
                                      and university researchers at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center Horticultural Twilight Meeting and      November 2020
At the time of her nomination,                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Westmoreland. These counties are not completely infested but have                                                                                       Cornell University)                    pest-management methods,
                                      Tour. Photo by Susan Barnes/University of Maryland Extension.
Maggie Lewis was still a gradu-                                                                                                                                    In November, a population was discovered in Ithaca, NY, by an ento-          some municipalities with known infestations.                                                                                                                                                   or people demonstrating IPM
ate student, working under the                                                                                                                                 mology undergraduate student. Adults and egg masses were discovered                  The 2021 Spotted Lanternfly Summit was held virtually over the                                                                                      Next-generation support for            practices? Your images could
guidance of Kelly Hamby, associate professor and extension specialist            to work with stakeholders to advance new and more sustainable IPM             around the parking area of a student apartment complex. Once 2021                course of three full days, featuring presentations on new research,                                                                                     Northeast tree fruit IPM (Terence      help us tell the story—and
in the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Entomology.           programs.”                                                                    arrived, a springtime removal of trees in the vicinity was conducted to          extension, and communications efforts and outreach to stakeholders                                                                                      Bradshaw, University of Vermont)       promote awareness—of cur-
She defended her PhD in March and graduated in May.                                  Lewis’s nominations expressed confidence that she is “well positioned     stop any undiscovered egg masses from hatching.                                  and industry.                                                                                                                                                                                  rent and emerging pest- and
    Lewis’s doctoral work has focused on spotted wing drosophila                 to advance the field of IPM” and is “passionate about IPM research and            Dead adults were found in Michigan, but there remain no known live               Visit StopSLF.org to watch the summit presentations. Also available                                                                                                                        pest-management issues.
(SWD), a significant pest of soft-skinned fruit crops that, at this time, is     education.”                                                                   populations. The dead adults arrived on freight or trucks from infested areas.   to view is the recording of Spotted Lanternfly 101, a presentation and                                                                                                                             If we use your photos, they
best controlled through pesticides. Her work has laid the foundation for                                                                                           In New York, large infestations were found in Orangeburg, Port               Q&A session held the week before the summit and intended to provide                                                                                                                            could appear in any of our
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        About the Program
developing alternative tactics and improving management practices.                    “The glowing testimonials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Marga-     Jervis, and Staten Island.                                                       attendees with foundational SLF knowledge key to deriving maximum                                                                                                                              channels or collateral, includ-
    Lewis has invested time and energy not just in research, but also in              ret Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned widespread           The map was updated to include Tompkins, Orange, and Rockland                benefit from the summit.                                                                                                                                Learn more about the IPM Part-         ing newsletters, brochures,
relationship-building with stakeholders including growers, professional               recognition for their work on critical pest-management issues.”          Counties, as well as Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens in the New                                                                                                                                                                      nership Grants Program by visiting     websites, and social media,
societies, and extension personnel, seeking to get constituents engaged               – Deborah G. Grantham, director, Northeastern IPM Center                 York metropolitan area. Also added was Mineral County in West Virginia.                                                                                                                                                                  neipmc.org/go/bfgs.                    and you’ll be credited as the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Resources
in the process of developing and implementing IPM methods to control                                                                                               Also this month, Brian Walsh, a Penn State Extension horticulture                                                                                                                                                                         For those interested in seeking   photographer.
SWD.                                                                                                                                                           educator in Berks County, PA, presented a webinar—Spotted Lanternfly:            Stop SLF (www.stopslf.org)—The USDA SCRI-funded project to research                                                                                     funding through the program, the
                                                                                 Read More
    Though still a student herself, Lewis has shared her knowledge and                                                                                         Impacts and Strategies for Ornamental Plants—a useful overview of this              and develop control methods for spotted lanternfly, maintained by                                                                                    Center will release an RFA for the     Please visit neipmc.org/go/
enthusiasm for IPM by mentoring undergraduate researchers. She has               For more information about the Outstanding Achievements in IPM Award—         pest and its implications. Visit www.hriresearch.org/thrive-web-series              the Northeastern IPM Center.                                                                                                                         2021 round of grants sometime this     ncfs for more information.
also been published multiple times, obtained $81,000 in competitive              including details about who is eligible to nominate candidates or receive     to view this and other webinars in the Horticultural Research Institute                                                                                                                                                                  fall.
research grants, and been invited to speak at multiple symposia.                 the award and the types of accomplishments considered worthy of recogni-      tHRIve web series.                                                               Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly (extension.psu.edu/spotted-      Image credits – stink bug nymphs: Gary Bernon, USDA APHIS, Bugwood.
    “I have been really fortunate to work alongside and learn from               tion—see this year’s call for nominations at neipmc.org/go/RERJ.                                                                                                  lanternfly)—Penn State was the lead institution on the 2018 North-     org; pears: Keith Weller, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org;
                                                                                                                                                               January 2021
a great group of people, and to find a career that I love,” said Lewis.              Look for the 2021 call for nominations to be released in spring or sum-                                                                                       eastern IPM Center-funded working group that laid the groundwork       mouse: Ed Freytag, City of New Orleans, Bugwood.org; blacklegged tick:
“I was initially drawn to the field of entomology because of the ap-             mer 2021.                                                                         Berkley County, in western Maryland, was added to the map. There                for the USDA SCRI grant, and the grant’s project director, Julie       Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; tarping:
plied-pest-management aspect, and I look forward to continuing                                                                                                 also were dead individuals discovered in three North Carolina counties.             Urban, is an associate research professor at Penn State.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sonja Birthisel, University of Maine.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Northeastern
Center Virtual Conference Presents Overview of Current IPM Projects                                                                                            Northeastern

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        n March 31, 2021, the Northeastern IPM Center hosted the latest      •   Amara Dunn, Biocontrol Specialist, New York State IPM Program                        Center
        installment of the Northeast IPM Research Update Conference.         •   John Inguagiato, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
                                                                                                                                                               340 Tower Road
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Center
            The purpose of the conference was to increase collabora-         •   Daphne Munroe, Associate Professor, Rutgers University                        Cornell University
tion and awareness of current IPM-related research and extension in          •   David Owens, Extension Specialist, University of Delaware                     Ithaca, NY 14853
the Northeast, using an accessible, engaging format. The conference          •   Mahfuz Rahman, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, West
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                June 2021
delivered brief overviews of project highlights through five-minute pre-            Virginia University
recorded presentations followed by live Q&A with the presenters.             •   Joseph Roberts, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Clemson
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Volume 18, Issue 1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Northeastern IPM Center Names Maggie Lewis,
    Featured projects included those funded by the Center’s Partnership             University (discussing work performed during previous assistant                                                                                                                                                                       Inside
Grants Program, the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and                  professorship at University of Maryland)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Kathy Murray Recipients of 2020 Award
Education (NE SARE) Program, and USDA-NIFA’s Applied Research and            •   Kim Skyrm, State Apiarist, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural                                                                                                                                                                      4Spotted Lanternfly
Development Program (ARDP) and Extension Implementation Program                     Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Updates — 3
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Award recognizes
(EIP).                                                                       •   Lisa Tewksbury, Research Associate, University of Rhode Island
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4Northeastern IPM             accomplishments in IPM
                                                                             •   Changlu Wang, Extension Specialist, Rutgers University
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Center Announces            by students, professionals
                                                                             •   Veronica Yurchak, Graduate Student, University of Maryland

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Presenters                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Recipients of 2021
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Partnership Grants — 4              he Northeastern
• Sam Anderson, Urban Agriculture Specialist, Cornell Cooperative                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Integrated Pest Manage-
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    Extension                                                                                                                                                                                      A brown marmorated stink bug feeds on a red pepper plant.                                                              4Call for Submissions and             ment (IPM) Center has
• Terence Bradshaw, Research Assistant Professor, University of              To view the conference agenda or watch the recording, visit                                                           Photo by Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University,                                                                          Photos — 4                  announced the two recipi-
    Vermont                                                                  neipmc.org/go/tSES.                                                                                                   flic.kr/p/fEcLmK (CC BY-SA 2.0).                                                                                                                     ents of its 2020 Outstanding
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4Center Virtual               Achievements in Integrated Pest
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Conference Presents
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Management Award: Kathy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Overview of Current IPM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Murray, IPM program coordina-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Projects — 5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        tor for the Maine Department
NIPMCC Releases Whitepapers Backing IPM Support, Investment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               4NIPMCC Releases              of Agriculture, Conservation,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Whitepapers Backing         and Forestry (DACF); and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            IPM Support,                Maggie Lewis, PhD candidate
New issue papers discuss role of IPM in combating
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Investment — 5              in the University of Maryland,
resistance and invasive species, safeguarding food supply,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        College Park, Department of
and minimizing economic losses                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Kathy Murray using giant cockroaches to engage youth and families in learn-
                                                                                                                                                            #2018-70006-28882.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Center funded an SLF working group. The following year, the group            4Tracy Leskey Named           Entomology.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ing about integrated pest management. Photo provided by Kathy Murray.
                                                                                                                                                            Pest Management, Regional Coordination Program, Grant
      he National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Commit-
                                                                                                                                                            Institute of Food and Agriculture, Crop Protection and                           a more recent invasive pest, the spotted lanternfly (SLF). In 2018, the        Scientist of the Year for       The annual award, launched
                                                                                                                                                            The Northeastern IPM Center is supported by the National                             Leskey has also played a key role in the coordinated response to           Brown Marmorated Stink
      tee (NIPMCC) has released a series of whitepapers explaining how                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  in 2019, recognizes individuals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             tors of that project.                                                          Bug Research — 6
      pests threaten the security of the U.S. food supply, how an IPM                                                                                      Jana Hexter, Kevin Judd, David Lane, Susannah Reese, Mike Webb.                                                                                                                              or organizations whose work on IPM in the Northeast
                                                                                                                                                           Designer. Northeastern IPM Center: Nancy Cusumano, Deborah G. Grantham,           Research Initiative (SCRI) since 2011. Leskey remains one of six co-direc-                                                                                              About This Year’s Winners
approach offers the most effective means of managing pests, and why                                                                                        IPM Insights: Deborah G. Grantham, Director; Mike Webb, Editor; Kevin Judd,                                                                                                                  deserves special recognition, with a goal of honoring
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             much broader BMSB project funded through the USDA’s Specialty Crop
ongoing investment in IPM research and extension is critical to keeping                                                                                                                                                     Credits                                                                                                                     one professional (or organization) and one student
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             nership Grants Program in 2010. That group laid the groundwork for a                                                                                                    Professional Honoree: Kathy Murray
pace with the ever-evolving nature of these threats.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    each year. Nominations come from peers whose work
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             originally funded through the Center’s Part-
                                                                                   enjoying free rein in novel environments that lack the natural con-                                                                                                                                                                                                  relates to IPM in various capacities. Each winner re-        Over the course of her twenty-plus-year career, Kathy
                                                                                                                                                         announcement at neipmc.org/go/pCDt.                                                 project director of the BMSB working group
• U.S. Agriculture Is Vulnerable to Weeds, Diseases, Insects and Other             trol agents often present in their native habitats.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ceives $500 and agrees to provide a story and/or host a      Murray has earned recognition for her work on many
                                                                                                                                                         including this year’s other recipients, see the official                            history of collaborating with Leskey, who was
    Pest Threats: An overview of both the importance and fragility of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   webinar for the Center.                                      specific pests. She has developed improved meth-
                                                                                                                                                             To learn more about the USDA-ARS awards,                                            The Northeastern IPM Center has a long
    American agriculture, its economic significance, and its specific                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       The Center presented the awards virtually this year,     ods for managing filth flies and beetles in livestock
                                                                             About the NIPMCC                                                            well-deserved recognition.                                                          in Kearneysville, WV.
    vulnerability to pests.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.                        operations and performed mosquito monitoring
                                                                                                                                                         eastern IPM Center congratulates Leskey for this                                    USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station
                                                                             The National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Committee                                                                                                                                                                                                                 “We were pleased to receive such an enthusiastic         with Maine’s vector-borne disease working group to
                                                                                                                                                         to arrive in the U.S. in recent history. The North-                                 Leskey is research leader and director at the
• The Growing Threat of Pests Resistant to Pesticides and Other              (NIPMCC) is a committee of the Experiment Station Committee on Orga-                                                                                                                                                                                                       response to our call for nominations,” said Deborah          reduce outbreaks of West Nile virus and eastern equine
                                                                                                                                                         against some of the most damaging invasive pests                                    sive brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB).
    Management Tactics: An explanation of pest resistance and how            nization and Policy (ESCOP) and the Extension Committee on Organiza-                                                                                                                                                                                                       G. Grantham, Center director. “The glowing testimo-          encephalitis.
                                                                                                                                                         researching sustainable management strategies                                       management strategies against the inva-
    it develops, why traditional management methods are vulnerable           tion and Policy (ECOP) within the Association of Public and Land-grant                                                                                                                                                                                                     nials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Margaret               But she is perhaps best known for her work in
                                                                                                                                                             Tracy Leskey has built a distinguished career                                   honorees, citing her work in developing
    to resistance, and how IPM undercuts the mechanisms by which             Universities (APLU) governing structure.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned          school IPM. Since 2002, when Maine’s Board of Pes-
    resistance develops while offering alternate methods to control
    already-resistant pests.
                                                                                 It assists in development of reports and strategic plans on pest
                                                                             management issues and pursues activities that facilitate coordination
                                                                                                                                                         co-directors.
                                                                                                                                                         SCRI grant of its own, with Leskey as one of seven
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Leskey among its Scientist of the Year
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Service (USDA-ARS) has named Tracy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                T                                       widespread recognition for their work on critical
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        pest-management issues—Murray as an experienced
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     ticides Control instituted rules that required schools
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     to practice IPM, Murray has developed and provided
                                                                                                                                                         leveraged its initial accomplishments to earn an                                            he USDA’s Agricultural Research
                                                                             and collaboration nationally among and between IPM research and                                                                                                                                                                                                            professional, and Lewis as a graduate student just           extensive guidance and training materials to help
• Invasive Pests: A $120 Billion-a-Year Threat to America’s Farms and        extension at the land-grant universities, and between the land-grants                                                                                                                                                                        Contact Us                    starting her career.”
    Lands: A primer on invasive pests and the unique management              and federal agencies involved in IPM.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Research                                                           607-255-8815
    challenges they pose—and the economic damage they cause—by                   Learn more at escop.info/committee/nipmcc/.                                                                                                Tracy Leskey Named Scientist of the Year for                                                  northeastipm@cornell.edu                                                                  See “Award” on Page 2

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Center Virtual Conference Presents Overview of Current IPM Projects                                                                                          Northeastern
        n March 31, 2021, the Northeastern IPM Center hosted the latest      • Amara Dunn, Biocontrol Specialist, New York State IPM Program                        Center
        installment of the Northeast IPM Research Update Conference.         • John Inguagiato, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut                                                                                                                                                                                     Center
O           The purpose of the conference was to increase collabora-
tion and awareness of current IPM-related research and extension in
                                                                             • Daphne Munroe, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
                                                                             • David Owens, Extension Specialist, University of Delaware

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the Northeast, using an accessible, engaging format. The conference          • Mahfuz Rahman, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, West
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              June 2021
delivered brief overviews of project highlights through five-minute pre-          Virginia University
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recorded presentations followed by live Q&A with the presenters.             • Joseph Roberts, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Clemson                                                                                                                                                                                                   Northeastern IPM Center Names Maggie Lewis,
    Featured projects included those funded by the Center’s Partnership           University (discussing work performed during previous assistant                                                                                                                                                                       Inside
Grants Program, the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and                professorship at University of Maryland)                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Kathy Murray Recipients of 2020 Award
Education (NE SARE) Program, and USDA-NIFA’s Applied Research and            • Kim Skyrm, State Apiarist, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural                                                                                                                                                                      4Spotted Lanternfly
Development Program (ARDP) and Extension Implementation Program                   Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Updates — 3
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Award recognizes
(EIP).                                                                       • Lisa Tewksbury, Research Associate, University of Rhode Island
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4Northeastern IPM            accomplishments in IPM
                                                                             • Changlu Wang, Extension Specialist, Rutgers University
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Center Announces            by students, professionals
                                                                             • Veronica Yurchak, Graduate Student, University of Maryland
Presenters                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Recipients of 2021
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Partnership Grants — 4              he Northeastern
• Sam Anderson, Urban Agriculture Specialist, Cornell Cooperative                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Integrated Pest Manage-
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    Extension                                                                                                                                                                                    A brown marmorated stink bug feeds on a red pepper plant.                                                              4Call for Submissions and    T       ment (IPM) Center has
• Terence Bradshaw, Research Assistant Professor, University of              To view the conference agenda or watch the recording, visit                                                         Photo by Lynn Ketchum, Oregon State University,                                                                          Photos — 4                 announced the two recipi-
    Vermont                                                                  neipmc.org/go/tSES.                                                                                                 flic.kr/p/fEcLmK (CC BY-SA 2.0).                                                                                                                    ents of its 2020 Outstanding
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4Center Virtual              Achievements in Integrated Pest
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Conference Presents
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Management Award: Kathy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Overview of Current IPM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Murray, IPM program coordina-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Projects — 5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     tor for the Maine Department
NIPMCC Releases Whitepapers Backing IPM Support, Investment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             4NIPMCC Releases             of Agriculture, Conservation,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Whitepapers Backing         and Forestry (DACF); and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       6                                                                                 IPM Support,                Maggie Lewis, PhD candidate
New issue papers discuss role of IPM in combating
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Investment — 5              in the University of Maryland,
resistance and invasive species, safeguarding food supply,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     College Park, Department of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Kathy Murray using giant cockroaches to engage youth and families in learn-
                                                                                                                                                          #2018-70006-28882.
and minimizing economic losses                                                                                                                                                                                                             Center funded an SLF working group. The following year, the group            4Tracy Leskey Named
                                                                                                                                                          Pest Management, Regional Coordination Program, Grant                                                                                                                                      Entomology.                           ing about integrated pest management. Photo provided by Kathy Murray.
      he National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Commit-
                                                                                                                                                          Institute of Food and Agriculture, Crop Protection and                           a more recent invasive pest, the spotted lanternfly (SLF). In 2018, the       Scientist of the Year for       The annual award, launched
                                                                                                                                                          The Northeastern IPM Center is supported by the National                             Leskey has also played a key role in the coordinated response to          Brown Marmorated Stink
      tee (NIPMCC) has released a series of whitepapers explaining how                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               in 2019, recognizes individuals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           tors of that project.                                                         Bug Research — 6
      pests threaten the security of the U.S. food supply, how an IPM                                                                                    Jana Hexter, Kevin Judd, David Lane, Susannah Reese, Mike Webb.                                                                                                                             or organizations whose work on IPM in the Northeast
                                                                                                                                                         Designer. Northeastern IPM Center: Nancy Cusumano, Deborah G. Grantham,                                                                                                                                                                                  About This Year’s Winners
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approach offers the most effective means of managing pests, and why                                                                                      IPM Insights: Deborah G. Grantham, Director; Mike Webb, Editor; Kevin Judd,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Research Initiative (SCRI) since 2011. Leskey remains one of six co-direc-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           much broader BMSB project funded through the USDA’s Specialty Crop
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     deserves special recognition, with a goal of honoring
ongoing investment in IPM research and extension is critical to keeping                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              one professional (or organization) and one student
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Professional Honoree: Kathy Murray
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Credits
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           nership Grants Program in 2010. That group laid the groundwork for a
pace with the ever-evolving nature of these threats.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 each year. Nominations come from peers whose work
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           originally funded through the Center’s Part-
                                                                                 enjoying free rein in novel environments that lack the natural con-                                                                                                                                                                                                 relates to IPM in various capacities. Each winner re-        Over the course of her twenty-plus-year career, Kathy
                                                                                                                                                       announcement at neipmc.org/go/pCDt.                                                 project director of the BMSB working group
• U.S. Agriculture Is Vulnerable to Weeds, Diseases, Insects and Other           trol agents often present in their native habitats.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ceives $500 and agrees to provide a story and/or host a      Murray has earned recognition for her work on many
                                                                                                                                                       including this year’s other recipients, see the official                            history of collaborating with Leskey, who was
    Pest Threats: An overview of both the importance and fragility of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                webinar for the Center.                                      specific pests. She has developed improved meth-
                                                                                                                                                           To learn more about the USDA-ARS awards,                                            The Northeastern IPM Center has a long
    American agriculture, its economic significance, and its specific                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Center presented the awards virtually this year,     ods for managing filth flies and beetles in livestock
                                                                             About the NIPMCC                                                          well-deserved recognition.                                                          in Kearneysville, WV.
    vulnerability to pests.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.                        operations and performed mosquito monitoring
                                                                                                                                                       eastern IPM Center congratulates Leskey for this                                    USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station
                                                                             The National Integrated Pest Management Coordinating Committee                                                                                                                                                                                                              “We were pleased to receive such an enthusiastic         with Maine’s vector-borne disease working group to
                                                                                                                                                       to arrive in the U.S. in recent history. The North-                                 Leskey is research leader and director at the
• The Growing Threat of Pests Resistant to Pesticides and Other              (NIPMCC) is a committee of the Experiment Station Committee on Orga-                                                                                                                                                                                                    response to our call for nominations,” said Deborah          reduce outbreaks of West Nile virus and eastern equine
                                                                                                                                                       against some of the most damaging invasive pests                                    sive brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB).
    Management Tactics: An explanation of pest resistance and how            nization and Policy (ESCOP) and the Extension Committee on Organiza-                                                                                                                                                                                                    G. Grantham, Center director. “The glowing testimo-          encephalitis.
                                                                                                                                                       researching sustainable management strategies                                       management strategies against the inva-
    it develops, why traditional management methods are vulnerable           tion and Policy (ECOP) within the Association of Public and Land-grant                                                                                                                                                                                                  nials make it clear that Kathy Murray and Margaret               But she is perhaps best known for her work in
                                                                                                                                                           Tracy Leskey has built a distinguished career                                   honorees, citing her work in developing
    to resistance, and how IPM undercuts the mechanisms by which             Universities (APLU) governing structure.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Lewis have both distinguished themselves and earned          school IPM. Since 2002, when Maine’s Board of Pes-
                                                                                                                                                       co-directors.                                                                               Leskey among its Scientist of the Year
    resistance develops while offering alternate methods to control              It assists in development of reports and strategic plans on pest                                                                                                                                                                                                    widespread recognition for their work on critical            ticides Control instituted rules that required schools
                                                                                                                                                       SCRI grant of its own, with Leskey as one of seven                                          Service (USDA-ARS) has named Tracy
    already-resistant pests.                                                 management issues and pursues activities that facilitate coordination                                                                                                                                                                                                   pest-management issues—Murray as an experienced              to practice IPM, Murray has developed and provided
                                                                                                                                                       leveraged its initial accomplishments to earn an                                            he USDA’s Agricultural Research
                                                                             and collaboration nationally among and between IPM research and                                                                                                                                                                                                         professional, and Lewis as a graduate student just           extensive guidance and training materials to help

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• Invasive Pests: A $120 Billion-a-Year Threat to America’s Farms and        extension at the land-grant universities, and between the land-grants                                                                                                                                                                      Contact Us                   starting her career.”
    Lands: A primer on invasive pests and the unique management              and federal agencies involved in IPM.                                                                                                                                                                                                      607-255-8815
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    challenges they pose—and the economic damage they cause—by                   Learn more at escop.info/committee/nipmcc/.                                                                                              Tracy Leskey Named Scientist of the Year for                                                  northeastipm@cornell.edu                                                                 See “Award” on Page 2
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