Cornell IPM Events
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Learn to use IPM to deal with pests—insects, plant diseases, weeds, and more—with methods that help keep health and environmental risks as low as possible while saving you money.
July 2025
- July 4 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Grow green lawns with overseeding | Beech leaf disease
- July 22 (Tuesday)
- IPM Strategies to Protect Corn and Soybean Seed in New York State
Location: Cobleskill, NY - Webinar—Garden Pest Notebook Club July Meeting
Location: Online
- IPM Strategies to Protect Corn and Soybean Seed in New York State
- July 24 (Thursday)
- Life After Neonics: Exploring The Effect of Manure, Cover Crops, and Seed Treatment on Early Pest Risk in NY Field Crops will be presented at the 2025 Aurora Farm Field Day
Location: Aurora, NY
- Life After Neonics: Exploring The Effect of Manure, Cover Crops, and Seed Treatment on Early Pest Risk in NY Field Crops will be presented at the 2025 Aurora Farm Field Day
- July 30 (Wednesday)
- IPM Strategies to Protect Corn and Soybean Seed in New York State
Location: Hamburg, NY
- IPM Strategies to Protect Corn and Soybean Seed in New York State
August 2025
- August 1 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Making a mosquito bucket trap | Feeding Friendly Insects: Pick plants
- August 6 (Wednesday)
- Workshop—2025 Greenhouse Hands-on IPM In-depth
Location: Ithaca, NY
- Workshop—2025 Greenhouse Hands-on IPM In-depth
- August 16 (Saturday)
- Field Day—Celebrating Resilient Gardens: Healthy Plants, Hearty Flavors, Helpful Bugs | ¡Disponible en español!
Location: Geneva, NY
- Field Day—Celebrating Resilient Gardens: Healthy Plants, Hearty Flavors, Helpful Bugs | ¡Disponible en español!
- August 19 (Tuesday)
- Webinar—Garden Pest Notebook Club August Meeting
Location: Online (Zoom)
- Webinar—Garden Pest Notebook Club August Meeting
- August 20 (Wednesday)
- Field Day—2025 Christmas Tree IPM Field Day
Location: Geneva, NY
- Field Day—2025 Christmas Tree IPM Field Day
September 2025
- September 5 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Top 5 rodent exclusion tips | Feeding Friendly Insects: Get ready to plant
October 2025
- October 3 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Winterize your home orchard | Feeding Friendly Insects: Fall is for planting
November 2025
- November 1 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Understanding indoor cockroaches | Invasive tawney field cockroach
December 2025
- December 5 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? IPM for clothes moths and pantry moths
Informational Meetings
IPM Strategies to Protect Corn and Soybean Seed in New York State
July 22, 24, 30—To make information about the Birds and Bees Protection Act, ongoing research and current findings accessible to growers, Cornell IPM and project partners from Cornell University and Cornell Cooperative Extension are hosting a series of informational meetings for growers, crop consultants, certified crop advisors, industry representatives, crop managers and policymakers at locations across the state.
Field Day
2025 Christmas Tree IPM Field Day
August 26—Join Cornell IPM staff for our annual Christmas tree IPM twilight meeting held at our research field in Geneva, NY.
IPM Strategies to Protect Corn and Soybean Seed in New York State
Informational Meetings for growers, crop consultants, certified crop advisors, industry representatives, crop managers and policymakers.
What's Bugging You?
Practical solutions to pest problems on the first Friday of every month on zoom.
Cornell IPM Academic Seminars
Each semester, we offer a series of academic seminars on various integrated pest management topics.
Past Events
June 2025
- June 6 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Spotted lanternfly update | Recognizing wild parsnip (Recording available)
- June 14 (Saturday)
- Tick Information Table at Get Outdoors and Get Together Day with Joellen Lampman
Location: Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, 56 Game Farm Rd, Delmar, NY 12054
- Tick Information Table at Get Outdoors and Get Together Day with Joellen Lampman
- June 17 (Tuesday)
- Annual Conference
Pests at the Perimeter: How Landscape Design Influences Indoor Pest Intrusion (Recordings available)
Location: West Nyack, Rockland County, NY
- Annual Conference
- June 24 (Tuesday)
- Webinar—Garden Pest Notebook Club June Meeting
Location: Online
- Webinar—Garden Pest Notebook Club June Meeting
- June 26 (Thursday)
- The Birds and Bees Act: How New Regulations on Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Will Shape Field Crop Production in NYS—Insights from Statewide Large-Scale Farm Trials, will be presented by Dr. Katja Poveda and Dr. Alejandro Calixto at the 2025 Cornell Seed Grower’s Field Day
Location: Ithaca, NY
- The Birds and Bees Act: How New Regulations on Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Will Shape Field Crop Production in NYS—Insights from Statewide Large-Scale Farm Trials, will be presented by Dr. Katja Poveda and Dr. Alejandro Calixto at the 2025 Cornell Seed Grower’s Field Day
May 2025
- May 2 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Spongy moth caterpillar management | Feeding Friendly Insects: Plan to prep your soil (event recording available)
- May 15 (Thursday)
- Webinar—ECOS Zoom Speaker Series: Don’t Get Ticked! with Joellen Lampman, Cornell Integrated Pest Management
Location: Online
- Webinar—ECOS Zoom Speaker Series: Don’t Get Ticked! with Joellen Lampman, Cornell Integrated Pest Management
April 2025
- April 4 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Pest rats explained | Myth: cats for rat control (recording available)
- April 9 (Wednesday)
- Academic Seminar—The threat posed by ‘inert’ ingredients to bees with Dr. Edward Straw, Trinity College Dublin
Location: Online
- Academic Seminar—The threat posed by ‘inert’ ingredients to bees with Dr. Edward Straw, Trinity College Dublin
- April 29 (Tuesday)
- Workshop—Managing Rats in Urban Farms and Gardens with Regina Clinton
Location: Massachusetts Avenue Urban Farm, 387 Massachusetts Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14213
- Workshop—Managing Rats in Urban Farms and Gardens with Regina Clinton
March 2025
- March 6 (Thursday)
- Greenhouse Scout School: Overview of Scouting Part 2
- March 7 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Considerations for hiring a pest pro | Choosing a tick repellent
- March 11 (Tuesday)
- New York Certified Organic (NYCO) Farmer-to-Farmer March 2025 Meeting
Location: Geneva, NY
- New York Certified Organic (NYCO) Farmer-to-Farmer March 2025 Meeting
- March 12 (Wednesday)
- Resilient Garden Practices (NYS Integrated Pest Management)
Location: Binghamton, NY
- Resilient Garden Practices (NYS Integrated Pest Management)
- March 13 (Thursday)
- Greenhouse Scout School: Scouting resources
- March 14 (Friday)
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 5: St. Peachtrick’s Day - Stone Fruit Insect and Disease Management
Location: Online
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 5: St. Peachtrick’s Day - Stone Fruit Insect and Disease Management
- March 19 (Wednesday)
- Academic Seminar—Vacant land as an environmental resource for conservation and community building with Dr. Mary M. Gardiner, Ohio State University
Location: Online
- Academic Seminar—Vacant land as an environmental resource for conservation and community building with Dr. Mary M. Gardiner, Ohio State University
- March 20 (Thursday)
- Greenhouse Scout School: Communicating Scouting Results
- March 27 (Thursday)
- Greenhouse Scout School: And Everything Else
February 2025
- February 4-5 (Tuesday-Wednesday)
- February 6 (Thursday)
- Dr. Amara Dunn-Silver will present "Bio-Control and Biologicals for Organic Field Crops" as part of the 2025 Cornell Organic Field Crops Conference
Location: Jordan Hall, Cornell AgriTech, Geneva, N.Y.
- Dr. Amara Dunn-Silver will present "Bio-Control and Biologicals for Organic Field Crops" as part of the 2025 Cornell Organic Field Crops Conference
- February 7 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Proper storage of pesticides & household chemicals | Misuse of moth balls (recording available)
Location: Online
- What's Bugging You? Proper storage of pesticides & household chemicals | Misuse of moth balls (recording available)
- February 13 (Thursday)
- Greenhouse Scout School: Intro to Scouting
Location: Online
- Greenhouse Scout School: Intro to Scouting
- February 14 (Friday)
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 3: The Value of "Eco-Friendly" Marketing - OMRI, Red Tomato, EcoApple, NYS Grown and Certified
Location: Online
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 3: The Value of "Eco-Friendly" Marketing - OMRI, Red Tomato, EcoApple, NYS Grown and Certified
- February 19 (Wednesday)
- Academic Seminar—In Pursuit of Prevention: NYSDOH Tick and Tick-borne Disease Surveillance and Research Updates from the Lab and Field with Melissa Prusinski, NYSDOH Bureau of Communicable Disease Control
Location: Online
- Academic Seminar—In Pursuit of Prevention: NYSDOH Tick and Tick-borne Disease Surveillance and Research Updates from the Lab and Field with Melissa Prusinski, NYSDOH Bureau of Communicable Disease Control
- February 20 (Thursday)
- Greenhouse Scout School: Mechanics of Scouting and Record Keeping
Location: Online
- Greenhouse Scout School: Mechanics of Scouting and Record Keeping
- February 27 (Thursday)
- Greenhouse Scout School: Overview of Scouting Part 1
Location: Online
- Greenhouse Scout School: Overview of Scouting Part 1
- February 28 (Friday)
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 4: Biopesticides and Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) for Berries
Location: Online
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 4: Biopesticides and Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) for Berries
January 2025
- January 3 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Winter lighting for houseplants | 2024 Year in Review
Location: Online
- What's Bugging You? Winter lighting for houseplants | 2024 Year in Review
- January 14 (Tuesday)
- New York Certified Organic (NYCO) Farmer-to-Farmer Meeting
Location: Geneva, NY
- New York Certified Organic (NYCO) Farmer-to-Farmer Meeting
- January 17 (Friday)
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 1: Digging in to Pruning and Soil Health
Location: Online
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 1: Digging in to Pruning and Soil Health
- January 24 (Friday)
- Greenhouse Scout School Certificate program registration deadline—Greenhouse Scout School
- January 31 (Friday)
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 2: Cider Apples - Mechanized Harvesting and Patulin Food Safety
Location: Online
- Cornell Winter Fruit Webinar Series 2025 | Week 2: Cider Apples - Mechanized Harvesting and Patulin Food Safety
December 2024
- December 4 (Wednesday)
- Academic Seminar—Neighborhood Rat Reduction in New York City with Caroline Bragdon, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Recording Available
- Academic Seminar—Neighborhood Rat Reduction in New York City with Caroline Bragdon, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- December 6 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Feed the Birds | Repurposing a Holiday Tree
Recording Available
- What's Bugging You? Feed the Birds | Repurposing a Holiday Tree
November 2024
- November 1 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? 2024 Tick Blitz Results | No Spray Needed
- November 5 (Tuesday)
- The National Environmental Health Association presents Find It and Fix It: Effective Strategies for Bed Bug Inspection, Control, and Personal Protection with Susannah Krysko
Location: Online
- The National Environmental Health Association presents Find It and Fix It: Effective Strategies for Bed Bug Inspection, Control, and Personal Protection with Susannah Krysko
- November 13 (Wednesday)
- Academic Seminar—Beech leaf disease with Margery Daughtrey, Cornell University
Location: Online
- Academic Seminar—Beech leaf disease with Margery Daughtrey, Cornell University
October 2024
- October 2 (Wednesday)
- Northeastern IPM Center presents Increasing access to practical biocontrol information through digital resources with Amara Dunn-Silver
- October 4 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Identifying Pests in Your Home
- ¡Conozca Su Plaga! He encontrado una plaga en casa... ¿y ahora qué? | ¿Funcionan las aplicaciones de identificación de insectos?
- October 5 (Saturday)
- CCE Schoharie and Otsego Counties present Putting Your Garden to Bed Dos and Don’ts with Amara Dunn-Silver
Location: Cooperstown, NY - Tick Safety Information Table at the Lima Pumpkin Festival with Regina Clinton
Location: Hilton, NY
- CCE Schoharie and Otsego Counties present Putting Your Garden to Bed Dos and Don’ts with Amara Dunn-Silver
- October 6 (Sunday)
- Tick Safety Information Table at the Hilton Apple Festival with Regina Clinton
Location: Hilton, NY
- Tick Safety Information Table at the Hilton Apple Festival with Regina Clinton
- October 23 (Wednesday)
- Academic Seminar—Next generation biopesticides with Lindsy Iglesias, GreenLight Biosciences
Location: Online
- Academic Seminar—Next generation biopesticides with Lindsy Iglesias, GreenLight Biosciences
- October 24 (Thursday)
- Joellen Lampman will be speaking at the New York State School Environmental Health Conference 2024
Location: Saratoga Springs, NY
- Joellen Lampman will be speaking at the New York State School Environmental Health Conference 2024
September 2024
- September 6 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Back to School: Bed Bugs | Head Lice
- ¡Conozca Su Plaga! Vuelta al Escuela: Chinches de Cama | Piojos
- September 14 (Saturday)
- We will have a tick information table at Five Rivers Fall Festival with Joellen Lampman
Location: Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, 56 Game Farm Rd, Delmar, NY 12054
- We will have a tick information table at Five Rivers Fall Festival with Joellen Lampman
- September 18–19 (Wednesday and Thursday)
- Conference—2024 Inaugural National Urban Rat Summit
Location: Pier 57, Manhatten, NY, NY
- Conference—2024 Inaugural National Urban Rat Summit
- September 25 (Wednesday)
- Academic Seminar—Brawling weeds and the fight for crop survival with Dr. Clarence Swanton, University of Guelph
Location: Online
- Academic Seminar—Brawling weeds and the fight for crop survival with Dr. Clarence Swanton, University of Guelph
August 2024
- August 2 (Friday)
- August 3 (Saturday)
- We will have a tick information table at Bug Fest! with Joellen Lampman
Location: Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, 56 Game Farm Rd, Delmar, NY 12054 - [Canceled] Geneva Grows Native: Join Geneva’s native plant and insect journey.
Location: Geneva, NY
- We will have a tick information table at Bug Fest! with Joellen Lampman
- August 10 (Saturday)
- Geneva Grows Native: Join Geneva’s native plant and insect journey.
Location: Geneva, NY - Jody L. Gangloff-Kaufmann will present “Protecting the Community Garden from Wildlife” as part of the Resilient Gardens Symposium – NYC
Location: Barnard College, New York, NY
- Geneva Grows Native: Join Geneva’s native plant and insect journey.
- August 15 (Thursday)
- Christmas Tree IPM Field Day
Location: Geneva, NY
- Christmas Tree IPM Field Day
- August 17 (Saturday)
Geneva Grows Native: Join Geneva’s native plant and insect journey.
Location: Geneva, NY - August 24 (Saturday)
Geneva Grows Native: Join Geneva’s native plant and insect journey.
Location: Geneva, NY - August 31 (Saturday)
Don't Get Ticked New York Event with Joellen Lampman
Location: Thacher State Park (Saratoga/Capital District)
July 2024
- July 5 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? Japanese Beetle Management and Aphid-Eating Insects
Location: Online
- What's Bugging You? Japanese Beetle Management and Aphid-Eating Insects
- July 22 (Monday)
- Greenhouse IPM In-depth Hands-on Workshop
Location: Ithaca, NY
- Greenhouse IPM In-depth Hands-on Workshop
- July 24 (Wednesday)
- [Postponed—Date TBD] Bilingual Farmworker Appreciation Event and IPM Training for Hudson Valley Orchards
Location: Locust Grove Brewing Company, Milton, NY
- [Postponed—Date TBD] Bilingual Farmworker Appreciation Event and IPM Training for Hudson Valley Orchards
- July 29-30 (Monday-Tuesday)
- Summer Cut Flower Conference
Location: Geneva, NY
- Summer Cut Flower Conference
June 2024
- June 3 (Monday)
- The Albany Guardian Society presents Be Tick Free with Joellen Lampman
Location: Online
- The Albany Guardian Society presents Be Tick Free with Joellen Lampman
- June 7 (Friday)
- June 8 (Saturday)
- Tick Prevention 101 at Get Outdoors Get Together day with Joellen Lampman
Location: Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, 56 Game Farm Rd, Delmar, NY 12054 - Tick Safety Workshop and Information Table at the 25th Annual Outdoor Expo with Regina Clinton
Location: Mendon Ponds Park, Pittsford, NY
- Tick Prevention 101 at Get Outdoors Get Together day with Joellen Lampman
- June 24 (Monday)
- Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara presents Lyme Disease Prevention Information Session with Joellen Lampman
Location: Schenectady, NY
- Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara presents Lyme Disease Prevention Information Session with Joellen Lampman
- June 25 (Tuesday)
- CCE Westchester County presents What bit me? Summertime pests with Matt Frye
Location: Online - Virtual IPM Orchard Scout Training #2 with Anna Wallis
Location: Online
- CCE Westchester County presents What bit me? Summertime pests with Matt Frye
- June 26 (Wednesday)
- Cornell Garden-Based Learning Presents Sustainable Landscapes Lunch & Learn: Summer Ecological Gardening Practices with Amara Dunn-Silver
Location: Online
- Cornell Garden-Based Learning Presents Sustainable Landscapes Lunch & Learn: Summer Ecological Gardening Practices with Amara Dunn-Silver
- June 27 (Thursday)
- Fruit IPM for the home garden and landscapes conference
Locations: Voorheesville, NY and Altamont, NY
- Fruit IPM for the home garden and landscapes conference
May 2024
- May 3 (Friday)
- What's Bugging You? No-Mow May and What to do with Grass Clippings (recording available)
- May 15 (Wednesday)
- Cornell's ForestConnect Program presents Spotted Lanternfly and its Impact to Trees and Agriculture with Brian Eshenaur
Location: online
- Cornell's ForestConnect Program presents Spotted Lanternfly and its Impact to Trees and Agriculture with Brian Eshenaur
- May 22 (Wednesday)
- May 29 (Wednesday)
- New York State Restoration project presents Urban Berry Project: Growing Strawberries 101 with Dan Olmstead
Location: Upper Manhattan, NY - Second Annual Bilingual Orchard IPM Training for Farm Employees (5:30-8pm) with Anna Wallis
Location: Waterport, NY
- New York State Restoration project presents Urban Berry Project: Growing Strawberries 101 with Dan Olmstead