Photos from UCR UPMC 2024

Dong-Hwan Choe — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:16:10 +0000

Photos from UCR UPMC 2024 Dong-Hwan Choe Sun, 04/28/2024 - 21:16 More News Apr 28, 2024

33rd Annual UCR Urban Pest Management Conference was held on March 26, 2024 at UCR HUB Conference Rooms.

With about 150 attendees (including speakers and guests) and 14 industry sponsors, it was a successful event.

We had >12 speakers from industry, university research laboratories, and state regulators, covering many topics that are relevant to urban pest management. Find out more on the conference program here.

Here are some photos from the event.

Winners of Carl Strom / Western Exterminator Company Scholarship in Urban Entomology.

Professor Chow-Yang Lee is introducing Ebeling Memorial Lecture speaker for this year.

Professor Art Appel from Auburn University is delivering his Ebeling Memorial lecture - the importance of temperature to pest biology and management.

Professor Art Appel is delivering his Ebeling Memorial lecture - the importance of temperature to pest biology and management.

A view from the back of the conference room.

Law and regulation updates from Riverside County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office.

Research poster presentation by the scholarship winners and students.

DPR table.

Kathy Boyle is providing regulatory update talk.

Adena Why, the Acting Chief from Alameda County Vector Control Services District, is providing an update on vector control and management.

Blair Smith, the Director of Technical and Quality Assurance from Clark Pest Control, is providing a talk regarding our recent collaborative project - Ant IPM Alliance Project.

Dr. Niamh Quinn, the Human-Wildlife Interactions Advisor from UCCE Orange County, is providing a talk regarding rodent control and the use of rodenticide and trapping method.

Professor Catherine Loudon from UC Irvine is providing her innovative research (in collaboration with UCR Urban Entomology program) on a novel entrapment surface for bed bug management.

Photos from UCR UPMC 2023

Dong-Hwan Choe — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:52:33 +0000

Photos from UCR UPMC 2023 Dong-Hwan Choe Sun, 07/30/2023 - 11:52 More News Dong-Hwan Choe Mar 29, 2023

32nd Annual UCR Urban Pest Management Conference (UCR UPMC) was held at UCR Campus (HUB Conference Rooms) on March 28, 2023. Over 120 attendees (including 114 registered conference attendees and sponsors from urban pest management industry) and several students (graduates and undergraduates) from UCR Entomology urban entomology program enjoyed this one day (8AM - 4:30PM) educational event, which was filled with many useful and interesting talks. Dr. Vernard Lewis from UC Berkeley (emeritus) has provided our annual Ebeling Memorial Lecture, going over the rich and diverse tradition of urban entomology work in the western US, including California, and University of California system. For more information on UCR UPMC, click here.

Here are some photos from the event.