What Are the UC Ag Experts Talking About?
Event Name | Date |
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UC Ag Experts Talk: Monitoring Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer in Wine Grape Vineyards | 5/8/2024 |
UC Ag Experts Talk: Management of Lygus Bugs in Strawberry | 6/5/2024 |
UC Ag Experts Talk: Vine Mealybug | 7/24/2024 |
What is involved in the webinars?
A series of usually 1-hour long webinars, designed for growers and pest management professionals, highlighting various pest management and horticultural topics for crops grown in California. Master Gardeners can benefit from participating, but the pest management methods presented, especially the pesticides, are not to be followed without a clear understanding of their legal use by homeowners.
During each session, a UC Expert on the subject makes a presentation and entertains write-in questions via Q&A during and/or after the presentation.
What are the topics, and how do I register?
Monitoring Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer in Wine Grape Vineyards Carmen Gispert (May 8, 2024)
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In this webinar, Carmen Gispert, Area Viticulture and IPM Advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension, Riverside Palm Desert Campus, will present the work done in 2022-2023 to monitor the Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer using an optical trap and the traditional Delta trap both with lures.Register now.
Management of Lygus Bugs in Strawberry Mark Bolda (June 5, 2024)
- In this webinar, Mark Bolda, Farm Advisor in Strawberries and Caneberries with the University of California Cooperative Extension, Santa Cruz County, will discuss lygus bugs in strawberries. Lygus bugs are serious pests of strawberry, and by some estimates cause an annual loss of 20% statewide. This webinar will cover the description of lygus bugs and their relationship to strawberry, including the role of the surrounding environment on lygus bug severity. Traditional management and advances in managing lygus will also be discussed. Register now
Vine Mealybug Kent M. Daane (July 24, 2024)
- More information to come Register now
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Are there Continuing Education units?
When the subject discusses pest or disease management, continuing education units (CEU) will be requested from DPR (1 unit per session) and when relevant also Certified Crop Adviser (CCA) and International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) continuing education units. To qualify for the CEU make sure to
- register separately with your own email address and log in from your own device
- participate in the entire hour session
- complete and pass a final test with 70% or higher; if not passed, the test can be retaken
If you are connecting by smartphone and need CEUs, be sure that you are using the zoom app (Android, iPhone) so that you have access to the presentation and we can track your presence in the webinar.
Certificates of completion will be emailed within one week to those who meet those requirements above.
The webinars are recorded and linked from this website for future study. However, continuing education units are awarded only to the participants who attend the live version of the webinar.
Make a gift to support UC Ag Experts webinars
Your gift furthers UC's Integrated Pest Management's mission to help California residents, growers, land managers, and other professional pest managers prevent and solve pest problems with minimal impact on people and the environment by developing and promoting the use of integrated and ecologically sound pest management programs. Make a gift and use the Comment field to specify that your gift is for UC Ag Experts Talk webinars.
Who is involved in the UC Ag Experts webinars?
This webinar series is brought to you by UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program with the technical support of Petr Kosina (UC IPM Content Development Supervisor) and Cheryl Reynolds (UC IPM Interactive Learning Developer). Contact either of us to be included in the mailing list for the announcements of upcoming webinars.