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Summertime is Cleaning Time
“Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.” – ―...
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Pest Management for Today’s Schools Workshop – October 30, 2015
Do you work for a school district served by Orange-Ulster BOCES? Join the NYS IPM Program of Cornell University and Orange-Ulster BOCES for a seminar on implementing integrated pest management within...
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Pest Prevention by Design?
Another great EPA webinar is coming up next week. Pest Prevention by Design helps school administrators, engineers, and ‘green’ builders understand how to design pests out of buildings rather than be...
View ArticleNew York State’s “Clean, Green, & Healthy Schools” website
The NYS Department of Health has organized a website with extensive information on school environmental health, defined as the way the physical environment of school buildings and school grounds...
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Sandbox or Litterbox – You Decide
Raccoons defecate in communal sites, called latrines. Raccoon feces usually are dark and tubular and have a pungent odor. – from Raccoon Latrines: Identification and Clean-up Raccoons are pretty cute,...
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IPM in the classroom – No creature was stirring… scratch that. They are.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful But a week off from school is delightful And since cleanup was incomplete School pests eat, breed and eat, breed and eat. – Tortured adaptation of Let It Snow Let...
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Pesticide Use Guidance During COVID-19
Our friends over at Cornell’s Pesticide Management Education Program (psep.cce.cornell.edu) has asked us to help spread information on disinfectants and sanitizers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there...
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Back to School – Humans Only!
Schools across the world are having conversations about safely sending teachers, students, and the rest of the school staff back for face-to-face education during a global pandemic. These are vitally...
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Back to School – Keeping the Rodents Outside
“We should have little trouble with vermin if builders would hear and understand the ‘language’ of vermin and do a better job in eliminating their entrances and hiding place.” – Hugo Hartnak, 1939 For...
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School IPM 2020 Conference
“When it comes to student learning and achievement, the physical environment is a full partner.” – Dr. Lorraine Maxwell, Cornell University Another annual NYSIPM Conference is in the books and it was...
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Disinfectants Safety
Here’s an update on disinfectant use in schools from our colleagues over at the Cornell Pesticide Management Education Program (PMEP). Thank you to Mary Centrella, PMEP Director and Educator, for...
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AIR QUALITY: Pest Management, when pests are too small to see
A recent EPA nationwide webinar, What Schools Need to Know: Practices and Principles for Healthy IAQ and Reducing the Spread of Viruses, focused on indoor air quality in school settings. Air quality...
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Summertime (AND SCHOOL CLOSURE) means CLEANING TIME
(repost from June 2015) We’re sharing this blog post again for its timeliness. With so many schools shut down, it’s a great time to target those hard to get to places (sanitation) and look for entry...
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