PA IPM News Fall 2008 Newsletter Now Available
The PA IPM News Fall 2008 edition is now available as a downloadable PDF file from Web site http://resources.cas.psu.edu/ipm/newsletters/fall08.pdf.

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA, November 13, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The PA IPM News Fall 2008 edition is now available as a downloadable PDF file from Web site http://resources.cas.psu.edu/ipm/newsletters/fall08.pdf.

In This Issue:
• Reducing Health Risks in Public Housing - Suppression of asthma triggers such as rodents and cockroaches and the pesticides used to treat them is the focus of a new IPM training program to be offered in public housing authorities across the country.
• Uninvited Guests - Stink Bugs
• New Faculty Strengthens Honey Bee Research - Discovering how honey bees and other social insects behave and interact with one another will be the focus of a new faculty member's research in the Department of Entomology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
• Crop Disease Management Reports - The 2008 volume of Plant Disease Management Reports (PDMR) is now available.
• IPM Profile - Fruit Growers Work Together to Reduce Pesticides
• Green Cleaning Web Site Offers Toolkits, Webinars - INFORM's web site at http://www.informinc.org/ contains information on green cleaning, fact sheets about toxic chemicals and human health and offer webinars on topics such as green cleaning for schools.
• New Publication Tackles Growing Problem - An overwhelming resurgence of bed bugs throughout the world is causing alarm, especially in urban areas. A new manual developed from a New York City homeless shelter project includes bed bug prevention and how to control them safely using IPM.
• New Pest Forecasting Network - A new Penn State pest forecasting network brings several major pest forecasting models into one system.
• New Brochures on Invasive Plants - The U.S. Botanic Garden, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Park Service have collaborated on a brochure and wallet guide on invasive plants and non-invasive alternatives, with a focus on the mid-Atlantic region.
• Gardening with Good Bugs Publication - Whether you are a Master Gardener or a home gardener, if you have trouble identifying insects in the garden, the publication Gardening with Good Bugs can help.
• Useful Web Sites and Information
• Coming Events

If you have information you would like to contribute, or would like to be added to our e-mail listserv, please contact Kristie Auman-Bauer, Editor, at (814) 865-2839 or kma147@psu.edu.

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Kristie Auman-Bauer
Pennsylvania IPM Program
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