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Funding Program:
Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants Program |
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Project Title:
Creation of a web-based training course to promote biological control (Module 2) |
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Lead State: WA Lead Organization: Washington State University |
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Cooperating State(s):
Oregon |
| Undesignated Funding: $26,580 |
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Start Date: Mar-01-2016 End Date: Feb-28-2017 |
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Site/Commodity: Tree fruit |
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Area of Emphasis: Conservation biological control |
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Summary:
This project aims to stabilize and enhance conservation biological control of pests in tree fruit orchards by increasing stakeholders knowledge and awareness of conservation biological control. Pest management decision makers need a better understanding of how biological control functions and how natural enemies are negatively impacted by pesticides in order to enhance biological control of secondary pests, such as aphids and mites. To potentially reach all pest management decision makers in the western U.S., we began to convert the materials of a successful hands-on workshop into an interactive online course.
This project requests resources to finish the development and implementation of the second of two modules of the online course. Module 2 focuses on the effects of pesticides on natural enemies, how to use new monitoring tools for natural enemies and how new phenology models can be used to conserve natural enemies in orchards. An interactive case study challenges the user to apply many of the new principles learned. The online course will be publicly accessible, and stakeholders can take the online course at their convenience. Arrangements with state agencies will be made to issue pesticide recertification credits to interested stakeholders upon the completion of the course. Knowledge gain and changes in attitude and pest management practices will be evaluated. Enhancing biological control of secondary pests will reduce the use of pesticides for those pests, resulting in economic benefits (cost savings, access to export markets) as well as reduced health risks to humans and reduced environmental impacts. Objectives: 1) Finalize Module 2 of the interactive online course Enhancing Biological Control in Western Orchards. 2) Implement Module 2 as part of WSU Extension and provide access to pesticide recertification program credits through WSDA and, where appropriate, other states. 3) Evaluate project success in terms of knowledge gained, attitude changed towards conservation biological control, and changes in pesticide use. Initial baseline data can be collected within this project, but longer-term changes would need to be assessed using resources in future grants. |
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