Issue 1, April 24, 2018
First Issue for 2018
Welcome to the 2018 edition of the Home, Yard, and Garden Pest Newsletter. This newsletter is written to keep professional landscapers, arborists, golf course superintendents, lawn care personnel, and garden center operators up-to-date on the commercial management of diseases, weeds, insects, and other pests. We will report on the pests we are seeing and anticipating throughout Illinois. To assist us in these efforts, we ask for your help in reporting pest situations as you see them through the year. Please send reports to the newsletter coordinator, Travis Cleveland, at tclevela@illinois.edu.
We plan to publish 17 issues during the coming growing season. The first two issues will be two weeks apart as spring pest problems gear up. Through May and June, we will provide weekly issues, with issues every two weeks during July, August, and September. We will finish with an issue in mid-October that will include an index to the 2018 issues.
Our main authors are plant pathologists Travis Cleveland (tclevela@illinois.edu), Suzanne Bissonnette, and Diane Plewa (dplewa@illinois.edu), weed scientist Michelle Wiesbrook (buesinge@illinois.edu), IPM specialist Maria Turner (mrestrep@illinois.edu), and entomologists Kelly Estes and Sarah
Hughson (hughson2@illinois.edu). We also plan to include content and observations form extension educators from around the state. (Travis Cleveland)
Author:
Travis Cleveland