December 19, 2005
Urban Pest Management Conference Jan. 26-27 in Lincoln
LINCOLN, Neb. — The 14th annual Nebraska Urban Pest Management Conference is Jan. 26-27, 2006 at the Cornhusker Hotel.
The conference is for pest management professionals involved in structural, public health and school or government agency pest control; grain fumigation; and termite inspections; and those dealing with pest management in hospitals, nursing homes, child-care facilities, and food or grain storage facilities.
Because of extensive coverage of pest management and food-related issues, the conference is an excellent opportunity for those in a position to advise others on pest management issues, as well as those providing actual pest management services, said conference coordinator and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension entomologist Shripat Kamble.
More than 30 speakers, many of them local or national experts in their fields, will address over 50 pest management topics, including pests in stored grain, rodent control, selecting pesticides, ants, mold, bed bugs and brown recluse spiders, West Nile virus and mosquito control, pest control in sensitive environments, fumigants, pesticide toxicity, state pesticide laws and regulations and many other topics.
Among the featured speakers will be former UNL and current Texas A&M University entomologist Roger Gold, editor of "Handbook on Household and Structural Insect Pests"; Jerome Goddard, author of "Physician’s Guide to Arthropods of Medical Importance"; Bobby Corrigan, author of "Rodent Pest Management: A Practical Guide for Pest Management Professionals"; University of Minnesota entomologist Stephen Kells on cockroaches and rodents; Virginia Tech University cockroach and urban pest specialist Dini Miller; University of Georgia ant expert Daniel Suiter; Bill Pursley of the American Institute of Baking on pest control in food processing; Frank Arthur and James Campbell of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, Manhattan, Kan., on pests in stored grain and food products; and Susanna Von Essen of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Preregistration through Jan. 10 is $120. General registration after that date is $150. Trade-show vendor registration is $250, including booth table and electricity. To get a registration form online, go to 2006 Urban Pest Management Conference or contact Kamble for a registration brochure at (402) 472-6857. For conference room rates, contact the Cornhusker Hotel at (402) 474-7474 or visit The Cornhusker.
Nebraska Department of Agriculture recertification testing in the areas of structural/health related pest control, wood destroying organisms, public health pest control and fumigation will be available at the conference.
UNL Extension sponsors the conference in cooperation with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.
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Shripat T. Kamble - Ph.D.
Entomology
Professor
(402)472-6857
Steve Ress UNL Water Center - Communications Coordinator (402) 472-3305
Department: Entomology
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