Structural Pest
Control Issues

Hosted by New Mexico Department of Agriculture;
Provided by UC Davis Extension

May 19-23, 3008
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Returning for a fourth year to focus on a segment of the regulated industry that impacts people where they live and that create significant compliance problems in many states. This course will take a holistic look at regulating the structural pest control industry. Topics to include: urban IPM, pesticide use in and around schools, revisiting State IPM/Schools programs, urban entomology (current pest hot spots), relationships with CDC and State Public Health Departments, HVAC systems, mold control, interactions with laboratories and mosquito misters. We are looking for successful structural outreach programs that states have developed, and how they might be shared with a wider audience. We will also look at legislative and regulatory remedies to structural problems.