29 episodes
Over-Informed on IPM Anna Wallingford
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Dr. Anna Wallingford is an entomologist and State Specialist at the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. With more than 15 years of experience studying pest insects and diseases affecting several fruit, vegetable, and ornamental commodities through out the country, she works with colleagues and agricultural producers to implement strategies for sustainable management of crop pests.
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008 Plum Curculio (Part 1)
Anna discusses a century of plum curculio research with Doug Pfeiffer (Virginia Tech) and Anne Nielsen (Rutgers University), and how sweet we have in up here in New England compared to more southern regions.
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029 SWD & Yeasts
Anna talks about the finer points of monitoring and control of spotted wing drosophila with Kelly Hamby of the University of Maryland and Cesar Rodriguez-Saona at Rutgers University.
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028 COVID Cleaners
Get to know the difference between sanitizers and disinfectants and how to use them with this special interview with UNH Extension’s Heather Bryant and Mary Saucier Choate.
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027 Setting the stage for classical biological control of BMSB (part 4)
Anna chats with newly minted PhD Nicole Quinn (previously Virginia Tech, now USDA-ARS) about her work studying BMSB dispersal and the dispersal of its natural enemy, samurai wasp.
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026 Integrated Control Of BMSB (part 3)
If 2020 wasn’t bad enough already, the stars seem to be aligning for New Hampshire’s first BMSB outbreak in fall-harvested fruit crops. Anna takes a break from stopping people on the street to warn them and talks to some BMSB experts in this multi-part series on monitoring and control of this invasive stinker.
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025 What Cucumber Beetles Want
Anna dives deep into what we know about cucumber beetle behavior and chats with Simon Zebulo (UMD Eastern Shore) about how to make the most of that knowledge in organically-produced watermelon.