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Are you wondering how many continuing education hours this event is worth? If you attended the keynote (1 hour), all three concurrent sessions (1.25 hours each; 3.75 hours total), and the plenary session (1 hour), that amounts to 5.75 hours of class time/continuing education.
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Learn how Lisa’s community of native bees and other pollinators came naturally because of growing flowers without chemicals. Bringing flowers back to the vegetable garden and landscape will provide habitat and food for native pollinators and other beneficial creatures. Lisa will share her steps to gardening without chemicals--what flowers to grow, how to get your soil hopping with microbes, starting from seed for organic plants, and day-to-day life with an organic garden.
Lisa Mason Ziegler is a cut-flower farmer, author, and nationally recognized speaker on organic gardening. Lisa has been farming since 1998; her urban three-acre farm produces thousands of stems of flowers and an abundance of vegetables each week in season. Lisa is owner of The Gardener’s... Read More →
Examine and diagnose insect, disease, and abiotic landscape problems. Rain or shine, dress for the weather and bring a bottle of water. This walk is for Master Gardeners who participate in Plant Clinics. Note: This walk is not for folks looking to see pretty plants!
Extension Specialist, University of Maryland Extension, Home and Garden Information Center
David Clement's primary focus areas include invasive disease species education, the correct diagnosis of ornamental/lawn problems, and management of diseases/cultural issues through IPM strategies. He coordinates, develops, and participates in scholarship, teaching, and service to... Read More →
Extension Specialist, University of Maryland Extension, Home and Garden Information Center
Mary Kay Malinoski received a B.S. in entomology from the University of Delaware and an M.S. in pest management from the University of California Riverside. She serves as a statewide University of Maryland Extension Specialist in entomology/IPM. Mary Kay assists with pest problems... Read More →
Most Master Gardeners can tell the difference between a lady beetle and a mealybug. Did you know the larvae of some species of lady bugs are covered with white wax and are often misidentified as mealybugs and treated with insecticides? This presentation will teach gardeners some tricks to help them tell the difference between the immature stages of garden pests and beneficial insects that eat them.
Mike Raupp is the Bug Guy. He works with businesses, agencies, institutions, nonprofit organizations, and the general public to demystify insects and to develop sustainable landscape programs.
Insect damage is commonly found in ornamental landscapes, but it’s often hard to tell what type of insect caused it. Weather permitting, we will take a walk around campus and look at common examples of insect damage. We will go over how to determine what type of insect caused the damage, and how to treat it. If the weather is bad, then we will look at samples and pictures inside.
Master Gardener Coordinator, University of Maryland Extension
Ginny Rosenkranz has been with the University of Maryland Extension since 1994 as the Commercial Horticulture Extension Educator for Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset Counties. Her responsibilities include assisting and educating greenhouse, nursery, landscape contractor, garden center... Read More →
Agriculture Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Emily Zobel is the Agriculture extension agent for Dorchester County. She received her B.S. in Ecology and M.S. in Entomology from the University of Maryland College Park. Her thesis work focused on the feeding and reproductive habits of the brown marmorated stink bug on vegetable... Read More →
This presentation is an overview of common insect and mite pests of berries in this area, including ways to recognize them and strategies for dealing with them in back yard plantings.
To download a copy of Kelly Hamby's PowerPoint presentation, click on this link. The file is 461 MB.
Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, University of Maryland
Dr. Kelly Hamby received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Entomology at the University of California Davis with a focus on sustainable Integrated Pest Management for insect pests. Her research includes optimizing current management strategies as well as developing and evaluating new strategies... Read More →
Insect damage is commonly found in ornamental landscapes, but it’s often hard to tell what type of insect caused it. Weather permitting, we will take a walk around campus and look at common examples of insect damage. We will go over how to determine what type of insect caused the damage, and how to treat it. If the weather is bad, then we will look at samples and pictures inside.
Master Gardener Coordinator, University of Maryland Extension
Ginny Rosenkranz has been with the University of Maryland Extension since 1994 as the Commercial Horticulture Extension Educator for Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset Counties. Her responsibilities include assisting and educating greenhouse, nursery, landscape contractor, garden center... Read More →
Agriculture Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Emily Zobel is the Agriculture extension agent for Dorchester County. She received her B.S. in Ecology and M.S. in Entomology from the University of Maryland College Park. Her thesis work focused on the feeding and reproductive habits of the brown marmorated stink bug on vegetable... Read More →
Insects provide beneficial ecosystem services such as biological control of plant feeding insects, and pollination of food crops and flowering plants in natural and managed environments. Beneficial insects can be negatively affected in managed and disturbed environments. This presentation will briefly discuss measures towards protecting and conserving these insects, including the use of flowering plants, with some emphasis on descriptions of beneficial insects and their identification and diversity.
Rebeccah is a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland. She joined Dr. Paula Shrewsbury’s lab in April 2015 after completing her degree at University of California at Riverside. While in California, she worked on projects that focused... Read More →
