A half-day seminar that goes beyond the basics to discuss landscape pest identification (including new species coming to CA,) key strategies to prevent pests, and management options from cultural controls to pesticides.

This seminar focuses on Holistic Pest Management, which acknowledges that plants and their pests function in a shared ecological system. You will learn how to keep the ecosystem in balance so pests do not become a problem; and how to address intolerable pest problems with effective, environmentally-friendly management strategies.

You will learn:

• How to identify a multitude of landscape pests, including insects, diseases and weeds
• How to identify and take advantage of beneficial biological controls that may be present
• How to treat the underlying cause of the pest problem rather than just the symptoms
• How to properly use both new and old biological controls, and biologically-based pesticides for maximum effectiveness
• The latest eco-friendly pest management products and how to use them
• New exotic invaders heading to CA, and the best management options for them
• How some pesticides can damage the ecosystem and not harm the pests
• How Holistic Pest Management strategies minimize ecological disruption
• The best online and printed resources available to help you in your work

CEUs are available. For additional information contact www.ecolandscape.org