UC IPM Makes It Happen
 New
training tools demonstrated for school employees and master gardeners
UC
IPM participated in a one-day training workshop sponsored by the California
Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) School
IPM program at Oroville
High School in March 2005. Nearly 50
school IPM coordinators and other school representatives responsible
for pest management
attended.
As
part of the larger DPR hands-on program, UC IPM trained school staff
on how to use a specially created interactive presentation
module on
ants.
In addition to viewing a presentation and asking questions, participants
were encouraged to set up ant bait stations. They also practiced
caulking on props to simulate sealing up cracks to keep ants
out of buildings.
DPR staff presented the UC IPM ant training material at similar
school training workshops in Lake Elsinore, Bakersfield, and
Eureka in April
and July. Participants at each of the four training workshops
received the ant training material to use in their school districts
and
when training other school employees. The program will be repeated
at
several locations
in 2006. Cheryl Reynolds, interactive learning developer at UC
IPM Education and Publications, co-authored the presentation
with UC entomologist
Mary
Lou Flint and UC IPM information system manager Joyce
Strand.
More training materials are being produced for both master
gardener and school IPM programs. Topics include cockroaches,
honeydew
producers, and general IPM techniques. USDA, DPR, and the
UC Slosson Endowment
are
funding this training.
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2005
Annual Report