Progress 07/01/12 to 06/30/13
Outputs
Target Audience: Illinois citizens, agriculturalists, master gardeners, green industry personnel, producers, Extension personnel, grade school personnel and students. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Urban IPM: Development of 8 IPM online training modules These modules cover: Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Thousand Canker Disease, Spruce Problems, Downy Mildew on Impatiens and more, Bacterial Leaf Scorch, Sudden Oak Death, Emerald Ash Borer, and Bur Oak Blight. As of 4-4-13 601 participants had completed the modules. Support for Diagnostic Facitlities: Development and Implementation of In-depth Focused First Detector Programming. The goal was to provide in depth training sessions on emerging and current invasive insects, pathogens, and plants. Training in 2013 focused on emerald ash borer, thousand cankers disease, and three invasive plants--giant hogweed, Japanese stiltgrass, oriental bittersweet, mile a minute weed, princesstree, and Japanese chaff flower (depending on the location of the event). In addition to presentations by state experts covering identification, biology, hosts, sampling, management, look-a-likes, and regulation on each pest, participants also completed hands-on activities to put their new knowledge to work. A 100 page full color handbook was developed and provided to each participant in the workshops; in kind monies supported the printing of the manual. Targeted Audience: tree care professionals, master gardeners, master naturalists, forestry and natural resource professionals, and conservationists. Statewide, 324 individuals completed first detector training in 2012 FY. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? In-person training clinics, online newsletters, online Extension bulletins, online training modules, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, printed materials, in-person seminars, radio, newspaper, newsreleases, websites, in-person inspections. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? We recieved continuation award to complete Corn Virus Survey in Areawide, Evaluation in School IPM, and to finish development of 2 more IPM training modules for Urban IPM.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
In FY 2012: In the area of Urban IPM progress was made in implementation of educational modules for advanced training for Master Gardeners. The website for this online training is live and Consumers and Master Gardeners can learn about newly emerging or persistent plant diseases and insect problems in the home landscape with the new University of Illinois Extension Online IPM modules, http://mg.cropsci.illinois.edu/index.php . These modules are designed for Extension Master Gardeners but can be used by home gardeners and green industry professionals. Eight online IPM Modules are available to EMGs and others through University of Illinois. These modules cover: Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Thousand Canker Disease, Spruce Problems, Downy Mildew on Impatiens and more, Bacterial Leaf Scorch, Sudden Oak Death, Emerald Ash Borer, and Bur Oak Blight. These modules were created to inform about newly emerging pest and disease problems in home landscapes. Each module has detailed information and pictures about a particular pest or pathogen. At the conclusion of the lesson participants complete a short quiz. Additionally, there is an evaluation after each module.Participants who successfully complete the module and quiz get a printable certificate can be used to verify completion of the modules. In Illinois, each module is worth 0.5 hours of continuing education credit. Participants may return to the modules at any time to review the material but only claim the CEUs one time per module. As of 4-4-13 601 participants had completed the modules. Evaluations show that overall for the 8 modules respondents reported a 75% increase in knowledge of the pest after taking the course. As an example, evaluation results for the brown marmorated stink bug module, 123 respondents reported an 86% increase in knowledge after taking the module. They reported 85% confidence that they could identify the pest in the landscape and 80% confidence that they could teach about the pest. They gave a 95% rating to the module. Support for Diagnostic Facilities: The Plant Clinic Staff at the University of Illinois diagnosed 4,552 plant samples in the 2012 growing season. The total was comprised of 1325 client submitted samples, 1061 phytosanitary inspection samples, 2166 contracted SCN egg extraction samples for private industry. Additionally, information was provided all year via 2,100 telephone inquiries, approximately 2,150 email requests, and 620 walk-in consultations. This is a total of 4870 client contacts in the 2012 Plant Clinic season. There continues to be an increase, each year, in the number of plant and soil samples that were processed at the U of I Plant Clinic. Processed samples increased from the year 2011 by 17%, are up 152% from 2010 and 110% from 2009. The 2012 sample total (4552) compared to the totals of the previous three years, (3879 samples in 2011, 1804 samples in 2010, and 2159 samples in 2009). The clinic initiated a new informational bulletin series: Plant Clinic REPORT. The first bi-fold full color 6 page report 'Spruce Problems (Pest and Cultural Issues)' was completed in 2012. It is available in print and online at http://web.extension.illinois.edu/fmpt/downloads/45140.pdf . An educational publication series of 'Look-alike Tree Species for Exotic/Invasive pests' is in development for Walnut. A Plant Clinic Facebook page was developed by Diagnostic Specialist Stephanie Porter in 2011 to increase our visibility and provide a means of provided research based Horticultural and Agronomic information to followers https://www.facebook.com/UofIPlantClinic . In 2012, the Facebook page built to a base of 643 likes (followers), which has increased from 359 likes (followers) in 2011. Porter also developed a blog http://universityofillinoisplantclinic.blogspot.com/ to address hot topic and timely issues as they arise at the Plant Clinic. There were 34 blog posts and 11,470 pageviews in 2011 and 23 blog posts and 29,366 pageviews in 2012. The Plant Clinic staff contributed articles to Extension Newsletters including 35 articles for Home, Yard, and Garden Newsletter http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu/ and 5 articles for The Bulletin http://bulletin.ipm.illinois.edu/index.php. Development and Implementation of In-depth Focused First Detector Programming was a key component of the Support for Diagnostics Area. The first detector workshops this past winter focused on invasive tree pests. The goal was to provide in depth training sessions on emerging and current invasive insects, pathogens, and plants. Training in 2013 focused on emerald ash borer, thousand cankers disease, and three invasive plants--giant hogweed, Japanese stiltgrass, oriental bittersweet, mile a minute weed, princesstree, and Japanese chaff flower (depending on the location of the event). In addition to presentations by state experts covering identification, biology, hosts, sampling, management, look-a-likes, and regulation on each pest, participants also completed hands-on activities to put their new knowledge to work. A 100 page full color handbook was developed and provided to each participant in the workshops; in kind monies supported the printing of the manual. Targeted Audience: tree care professionals, master gardeners, master naturalists, forestry and natural resource professionals, and conservationists. Statewide, 324 individuals completed first detector training in 2012. At each workshop, participants were asked to complete an evaluation form which consisted of a few questions to help us plan for future workshops as well as asking what their profession/interest was to help classify our audience. Participants were also asked to rate their degree of understanding of the presented material before and after training using a 1 to 5 scale (1= very little, 5 = a lot). About 70% of participants returned evaluation summaries. Wide Area Monitoring: The Areawide Pest Monitoring program supported a formal network of cooperators who monitored for critical insects and plant pathogens through trapping, field monitoring and sample collecting. The network was coordinated in conjunction with the Illinois Cooperative Agriculture Pest Survey (CAPS) program and involved personnel at the University of Illinois Plant Clinic, and regional and local Extension Educators and Specialists. Agronomy Day Presentation: “Stinkbugs on the Move: Increasing Management Challenges on the Horizon” Crop Management Conference Presentations: “Invasive Species Coming to a Site Near You” reaching 1500 clientele. In wheat virus survey, of 241 samples, 0.8% were positive for High plains virus, a new report for Illinois. Impact: One very important aspect of the pest monitoring this last year was the inclusion of trapping and surveying for the brown marmorated stink bug, a new invasive insect in Illinois. With the development of the Pest Monitoring Network website, cooperators were able to submit “real time” data, providing timely updates to Illinois agricultural producers on the status of these economic pests. School IPM: Illinois School IPM program continued supporting the Westville grade school pilot program and extended to University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana campus.School IPM has refocused and initiated a bedbug mitigation, food services and building monitoring cooperative program with Facilities and Service on the UIUC campus. This project has also included cooperation with the Spurlock Museum aiming at wood and natural fiber pests. The project and the Museum are utilizing the Hetta units both to mitigate serious pests to wood and fiber objects in the collections and as an educational IPM project. Development of a School IPM resource website http://schoolipm.illinois.edu/
Publications
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Progress 07/01/11 to 06/30/12
Outputs
OUTPUTS: The Areawide Pest Monitoring program is a formal network of cooperators who monitor for critical insects and plant pathogens through trapping, field monitoring and sample collecting. The network was coordinated in conjunction with the Illinois Cooperative Agriculture Pest Survey program using personnel at the U of I Plant Clinic, and regional and local Extension Educators and Specialists. In the wheat virus survey, of 241 samples, 0.8% were positive for High plains virus, a new report for Illinois. The University of Illinois Plant Clinic sets the goal to provide service to the citizens of Illinois by standing as a source of unbiased diagnosis of routine, unusual, and exotic plant problems and to provide educational support to manage those pest issues. In order to help supplement already existing fiscal support such as National Plant Diagnostic Network ,EIPM, and SARE grant monies, the Plant Clinic placed focus on increasing plant sample intake. A business plan was developed that included a marketing campaign to promote the University of Illinois Plant Clinic via the internet and other various media outlets to increase visibility as well as provide a means of research-based Horticultural and Agronomic information. Consumer/Urban has completed and released its online module entitled The Process of Diagnosing Plant Problems for Master Gardeners and the module is housed on the eXtension website. This module is now available for Illinois Master Gardeners to use as the first part of their IPM training before beginning the pest-specific modules which are being constructed thru these grant monies. A communications module with the key message to assist Master Gardeners in teaching IPM will be available thru eXtension in spring 2012. The working group also purchased the Natural Enemy Field Guide from the Great Lakes Vegetable Working group which is being distributed to Master Gardeners in Illinois. Our Illinois Consumer Horticulture IPM module team is continuing work on modules for continuing education training for Master Gardeners. We developed two online training modules that will cover invasive diseases such as Sudden Oak Death and Thousand Cankers Disease. These modules include information on how to identify the pathogen as well as current management options that offer the best long term control with minimal environmental impact. Modules have been designed to utilize the train the trainer approach. Another module focuses on Bacterial Leaf Scorch and a 4th on Marmorated Stink Bug. School IPM continued supporting the Westville pilot program and extended to UI campus. In addition, the team will begin the process of certification by the Environmental Protection Agency and the IPM Institute. Factors that brought about this and other possible future awards include monthly inspections of monitoring stations at all three schools in the district. In response to Extension staff reductions, School IPM has refocused and initiated a bedbug mitigation, food services and building monitoring cooperative program with Facilities and Service on the UIUC campus. This project has also included cooperation with the Spurlock museum aiming at wood and natural fiber pests. PARTICIPANTS: PD - Dr. Suzanne Bissonnette, Plant Clinic and Illinois Integrated Pest Management Coordinator, Co-PI - Dr. Susan Ratcliffe, Director, North Central IPM Center, Co-PI - Monica David, Research Specialist/Illinois Master Gardener Coordinator, Co-I - Stephanie Porter, Diagnostic Specialist, Co-PI - Dr. Carl Bradley, Assistant Professor/Extension Specialist, Co-PI - Kelly Estes, State Survey Coordinator Illinois Cooperative Agriculture Pest Survey Illinois Natural History Survey. Suzanne Bissonnette attended the 2012 IPM conference in Memphis TN. Monica David attended the National Master Gardener Conference WVU 2011. This program cooperated with the National Plant Diagnostic Network, the CAPS program, the Illinois Department of Agriculture. TARGET AUDIENCES: Efforts included face to face training and conference seminars. Materials produced include news releases, bulletin articles, websites, pod-casts, facebook page, refereed publications, TV and radio programs, on-line training modules. Efforts ongoing for development of training program for professional arborists. Audience members targeted are: Illinois citizens, agriculturalists, master gardeners, green industry personnel, producers, Extension personnel, grade school personnel and students. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
One very important aspect of pest monitoring this last year was the inclusion of trapping and surveying for the brown marmorated stink bug, a new invasive insect in Illinois. With the development of the Pest Monitoring Network website, cooperators were able to submit real time data, providing timely updates to Illinois agricultural producers on the status of these economic pests. Agronomy Day Presentation: "Stinkbugs on the Move: Increasing Management Challenges on the Horizon". Crop Management Conference Presentations: "Invasive Species Coming to a Site Near You" reaching 1,500 clientele. In FY 2011, there were 23,890 visits of the newly developed Plant Clinic website (live in 6/11), 25 newsletter articles, 6 ACES media press releases, and 9 Illini Plant and Pest Podcasts (live in 4/11) produced with 4,344 visits. Plant Clinic Diagnosticians developed the Plant Clinic Facebook page with 359 followers, "skporter" Twitter account with 694 followers, and Plant Clinic blog, which had 34 blog posts and 11,470 page views. As a result, the University of Illinois Plant Clinic Staff at the University of Illinois diagnosed 3,888 plant samples in the 2011 growing season. Plant Clinic identified a new fungal needle drop on Spruce in Illinois, in 2011, published in Plant Disease. We have been developing Plant Clinic Diagnostic Short Courses in order to provide needed off-season training to supervisors, consultants, management, inspectors, and scouts in agriculture and green industries. CUI: In 2011, Boone County Illinois Master Gardeners received an International Search for Excellence award in the Innovative projects category for their EAB/Ash Tree Inventory project. In 2011, 683 new Master Gardeners were trained via face-to-face and online training methods. SI: These actions have resulted in ant, cockroach and rodent issues being reduced to only occasional sightings that are addressed rapidly. In the past year, documentation has revealed that pesticide applications have been reduced by 87%.
Publications
- Pest Alert on New Insect Threats of Soybeans, 2011.
- INHS Report: http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/resources/inhsreports/2011/406p4_BMSB.html, 2011.
- Bulletin Article: http://bulletin.ipm.illinois.edu/article.phpid=1461, 2011.
- News Release: http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/news/stories/news5720.html, 2011.
- Bradley, C.A. and Chapara, V. 2012. Survey of viruses and Clavibacter michiganense subsp. tessellarius on winter wheat in Illinois. University of Illinois Department of Crop Science.
- Plewa, D.E., Jossey, S., Porter S.K., Bissonnette, S.M. 2011. First report of spruce needle drop (SNEED) associated with Setomelanomma holmii on spruce in Illinois. Plant Disease 10:1094, 2011.
- Home, Yard, and Garden Newsletter: http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu/, 2011.
- University of Illinois Plant Clinic website: http://web.extension.illinois.edu/plantclinic/, 2011.
- Illinois Plant and Pest Podcast: http://web.extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/plantandpest/, 2011.
- University of Illinois Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/UofIPlantClinic, 2011.
- University of Illinois Plant Clinic Blog: http://universityofillinoisplantclinic.blogspot.com/, 2011.
- skporter Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/skporter/#, 2011.
- Illini Plant and Pest Podcast: http://web.extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/plantandpest/, 2011.
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Progress 07/01/10 to 06/30/11
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Consumer/Hort: Work on 3 continuing ed modules for Master Gardeners has begun on 1,000 Canker Disease, Bacterial Leaf Scorch and invasive weed species using Moodle. A set of lessons is being created on each of the topics using both audio and video functions and an interactive quiz and handouts. Each module includes information on how to identify the pathogen or pest and management options. The first of these modules is due to be released in fall of 2011. Plant Diagnostics: The Plant Clinic director at the University of Illinois retired in August 2010. The position was replaced by a Visiting Specialist position in February 2011. Social media has been implemented via Facebook, Twitter, and Blogger, that delivers researched-based articles, fact sheets, blogs, and pictures that refer to plant problems every work day. The Plant Clinic Facebook page has 316 followers with 208,000 post views. A new Plant Clinic website has been developed this season and can be found at: http://web.extension.illinois.edu/plantclinic/. In season the focus is on the diagnosis of 1,002 plant and 1,500 soil samples this season. A significant increase in sample submission compared to 640 samples submitted as of this date in 2010. Diagnostic short courses are being developed for the Illinois Crop Management Regional conferences. School IPM Illinois: School Superintendent Seth Miller organized and led a school IPM coalition meeting on 8/10/2010 with 25-30 individuals from six local school districts representing 8,000 students and 1,000 staff. This group's goal is to form an IPM coalition to serve as a state model for larger urban school districts looking to implement IPM. Illinois first coalition conference was 6/15/2010. The second coalition meeting was 9/2010. SPCP gave two presentations on bed bugs to childcare providers November 16-17, 2010, including 2 hour training sessions on IPM and bed bug control. In addition to current coalition school districts of Aptakisic-Tripp, Hinsdale, Hoover-Schrum Memorial, Spec Ed Dist. of McHenry, Stark County, Crete Monee and Carroll/Jo Daviess/Stephenson Roe, several new school districts will be joining the East Central Illinois School IPM coalition in 2011 including Danville, Paris, Vermillion Area Special Education School, and Catlin School Districts. School IPM programs have been initiated at VASE and Catlin School Districts including initial assessments and program planning meetings. Partnerships Areawide Pest Monitoring: Coordinated by the Illinois Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey program, a statewide insect monitoring network was established with the assistance of UI Extension Educators, UI Research Specialists and selected industry partners. During the summer of 2010, over 100 traps were monitored by UI research and extension cooperators in Illinois. These traps monitored fluctuations and dispersal of the corn earworm, European corn borer, fall armyworm, Japanese beetle, western bean cutworm, and southwestern corn borer. With the development of the Pest Monitoring Network website, cooperators were able to submit real time data, providing updates to Illinois agricultural producers on the status of these economic pests. PARTICIPANTS: Position changes: PD - Dr. Suzanne Bissonnette, Plant Clinic and Illinois IPM Coordinator, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Co-PI -Stephanie Porter, Diagnostic Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
Extensive re-organization of Illinois Extension resulted in PI Suzanne Bissonnette taking a new Extension postion as Plant Clinic and NIFA IPM coordinator for U of I Extension, and the hiring of a Diagnostic Plant Clinc Specialist. Numerous former contributors to the IL IPM project have changed positions or are no longer with Illinois Extension. Outcomes however still progressed. The North Central Consumer Horticulture IPM Working Group has completed and released its online module entitled 'The Process of Diagnosing Plant Problems for Master Gardeners' and the module is housed on the eXtension website. This module is now available for Illinois Master Gardeners to use as the first part of their IPM training before beginning the pest specific modules which are being constructed thru these grant monies. Plant Clinic reorganization and redirection has occurred in 2010-11. We have seen a significant increase in sample submission (1,700 to date, compared to only 680 samples submitted at this same date to the U of I Plant Clinic in 2010). Superintendent Seth Miller organized and led a school IPM coalition meeting on August 5th, 2010 with 25-30 individuals from six local school districts representing 8,000 students and 1,000 staff. The coalition serves as a state model for larger urban school districts looking to implement IPM. During the summer of 2010, over 100 traps were monitored by UI research and Extension cooperators in Illinois. Traps monitored the seasonal fluctuations and dispersal of the corn earworm, European corn borer, fall armyworm, Japanese beetle, western bean cutworm, and southwestern corn borer.
Publications
- Pest Monitoring IPM website, http://pmn.ipm.illinois.edu/, 2011.
- The Bulletin (Newsletter), http://bulletin.ipm.illinois.edu/ 2011.
- Home Yard and Garden (Newsletter), http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu/, 2011.
- University of Illinois Plant Clinic website, http://web.extension.illinois.edu/plantclinic/, 2011.
- University of Illinois Plant Clinic Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/#!/UofIPlantClinic, 2011.
- University of Illinois Plant Clinic blog, http://universityofillinoisplantclinic.blogspot.com/, 2011.
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