Here is an interesting webinar about beneficial invertebrates that I will be sitting in on next week!
Integrating conservation agricultural practices that enhance beneficial insects.
TNC Grassland Conservation Network Webinar Monday, January 26th 10:00 PST
Gwendolyn Ellen, Farmscaping for Beneficials Program Coordinator, Integrated Plant Protection Center, Oregon State University
About the Webinar:
Participants will have a general introduction to three different functional groups of beneficial insects: pollinators, predators and parasitic wasps and the importance of conserving their populations within western farming systems. Examples of practices from diverse farming systems in and adjacent to sagebrush steppe, upland savannahs and rangelands will be presented. How to fit these practices within farming systems and other advantages that can be gained from them will be discussed.
About the Presenter:
Gwendolyn Ellen is the Coordinator of the Farmscaping for Beneficials Program at Oregon State University’s Integrated Plant Protection Center. The FSB Program is now in its tenth year! Gwendolyn holds a BS in Plant Pathology from Colorado State University and over 30 years’ experience in sustainable and organic agriculture. Her diverse experience stems from her work as a farm laborer, farmers market manager, organic vegetable farmer, ornamental and research greenhouse manager, field consultant in agricultural biodiversity and biological pest management, community activist and educator. She has also been a research assistant in entomology, botany, plant pathology, and crop and soil science in land grant universities and an agricultural program manager in the non-profit sector. In addition to her agricultural conservation work Gwendolyn also advocates and facilitates farmer-centric, participatory research and runs her own agricultural biodiversity consulting business.
You can visit her website at http://www.ipmnet.org/BeetleBank/Farmscaping_for_Beneficials.html
Meeting information
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Topic: Beneficial Insects in Grassland Conservation
Date: Monday, January 26, 2015
Time: 11:00 am, Mountain Standard Time (Denver, GMT-07:00)
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To join the online meeting
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Go to https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/j.php?MTID=m1c6f58677a2bb58a33c0226218430afd
Integrating conservation agricultural practices that enhance beneficial insects.
TNC Grassland Conservation Network Webinar Monday, January 26th 10:00 PST
Gwendolyn Ellen, Farmscaping for Beneficials Program Coordinator, Integrated Plant Protection Center, Oregon State University
About the Webinar:
Participants will have a general introduction to three different functional groups of beneficial insects: pollinators, predators and parasitic wasps and the importance of conserving their populations within western farming systems. Examples of practices from diverse farming systems in and adjacent to sagebrush steppe, upland savannahs and rangelands will be presented. How to fit these practices within farming systems and other advantages that can be gained from them will be discussed.
About the Presenter:
Gwendolyn Ellen is the Coordinator of the Farmscaping for Beneficials Program at Oregon State University’s Integrated Plant Protection Center. The FSB Program is now in its tenth year! Gwendolyn holds a BS in Plant Pathology from Colorado State University and over 30 years’ experience in sustainable and organic agriculture. Her diverse experience stems from her work as a farm laborer, farmers market manager, organic vegetable farmer, ornamental and research greenhouse manager, field consultant in agricultural biodiversity and biological pest management, community activist and educator. She has also been a research assistant in entomology, botany, plant pathology, and crop and soil science in land grant universities and an agricultural program manager in the non-profit sector. In addition to her agricultural conservation work Gwendolyn also advocates and facilitates farmer-centric, participatory research and runs her own agricultural biodiversity consulting business.
You can visit her website at http://www.ipmnet.org/BeetleBank/Farmscaping_for_Beneficials.html
Meeting information
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Topic: Beneficial Insects in Grassland Conservation
Date: Monday, January 26, 2015
Time: 11:00 am, Mountain Standard Time (Denver, GMT-07:00)
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To join the online meeting
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Go to https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/j.php?MTID=m1c6f58677a2bb58a33c0226218430afd