Understanding Systemic Insecticides and Their Potential Impacts in Urban Ecosystems
Topic: Understanding Systemic Insecticides and Their Potential Impacts in Urban Ecosystems
Date: July 21, 2020 at 7PM
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Sutherland To attend, please sign up on Eventbrite
Meeting description: Systemic insecticides, such as neonicotinoids, are commonly used to protect nursery stock and sometimes used to protect urban landscapes from pest damage. How do these materials move around in the environment, and what effect might they have on pollinators, beneficial insects, and other non-target organisms? Let's review the known and unknown aspects of this increasingly scrutinized issue.
The speaker: Dr. Andrew Sutherland is the Urban Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Advisor for the University of California's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR), directly serving the San Francisco Bay Area and, through the UC IPM program, indirectly serving the entire state of CA as a conduit for IPM-related information and resources. The major focus of his programs is to develop new IPM strategies, or to adapt and implement IPM strategies already available, in cooperation with other researchers, pest control operators, pest management professionals, public agencies, schools, parks, public housing, and regulatory agencies involved with household, structural, and industrial IPM. His overarching goals include education about IPM principles, development of IPM programs for clientele, reduction in pesticide applications, and mitigation of surface water contamination due to urban pesticide applications.