Invasive Insect and Disease Species Training
March
21, 2012
Location: Carroll Community College,
Westminster, MD
8:00 – 8:30 Registration/Pre-Training Exam
8:30 – 9:00 Introduction
and Explanation of the National Plant Diagnostic Network Certification Process
for First Detector Certification
Speakers: Stanton Gill and David
Clement, University of Maryland Extension
9:00 – 9:30 What is New With the New Invasive Species
of Boxwood Blight?
Speakers: Karen Rane and David
Clement, Extension pathologist, University of Maryland Extension
9:30 – 10:00 What
is Happening With Japanese Cedar Longhorned Borer in Leyland Cypress and Chamaecyparis?
Speaker: Stanton Gill, University
of Maryland Extension
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 12:00 Emerald
Ash Borer: Research into the many choices for using chemical applications to obtain
the best control. David Smitley has tested
over 100 products for control of the emerald ash borer in Michigan.
Speaker: David
Smitley, Entomologist, Michigan State University
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
12: 45 – 1:15 Monitoring
for Thousand Cankers Disease: What we want you to look for in 2012
Speaker: Robert
Tatman, Maryland Department of Agriculture
1:15 – 2:00 Asian Longhorned Borer Update
Michael Smith,
USDA APHIS, Delaware
2:00 – 2:15 Trap Update on Emerald Ash Borer in
Maryland
Speaker: Dick
Bean, Entomologist, Maryland Department of Agriculture
2:15 – 3:15 Hands-on
lab: Looking at insect and disease samples under dissecting microscopes
Group instructors: Karen Rane,
David Clement, Stanton Gill, Mary Kay Malinoski, University of Maryland
Extension
3:15 – 3:45- Invasive Weed Update
Speaker: Chuck Schuster, Extension Educator, University of Maryland
Cooperative Extension
3:45 – 4:15 Live demonstration by demonstration
different methods for preventive applications such as micro injection
Speakers: Bob Stanley of
Treekeepers is organizing this section with arborist industry representatives.
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