Lesson 2 – How Natural Enemy Habitat Functions and Its Benefits and Costs

Presenters: Bill Snyder, University of Georgia & Lora Morandin, Pollinator Partnership

Start Time is 11:00 AM Pacific Time

Once you RSVP, a Zoom link will arrive in the confirmation email.

Upon successfully completing this lesson, participants will be able to:

• Describe the how there can be stronger pest suppression when natural enemies occupy different, complementary feeding niches.
• Explain how this blanket of attack can make intraguild predation less likely.
• Explain how there are more pests in weedy edges than native plant hedgerows and that more biocontrol occurs near these hedgerows.
• Recommend installing hedgerows based on the pest control and pollination benefits, and the costs.

Continued Education Credits have been requested and are expected to be approved from California Department of Pesticide Regulation and American Society of Agronomy.