PSEP-University of Tennessee

PSEP-University of Tennessee Tennessee's Pesticide Safety and Education Program (PSEP) The training programs offered via PSEP, prepare individuals for certification and licensing exams.

The University of Tennessee Extension Service conducts programs that enhance the quality of life for citizens of Tennessee. The Pesticide Safety Education Program is one program that helps train individuals who handle, apply and/or sale pesticide products. The program covers
pesticide certification, recertification and licensing of pesticide applicators and pest control operators. It also covers t

he Worker Protection Standards, WPS, issued by EPA. The program helps provide protection information to workers and pesticide handlers who work on farms, in forest production, in nursery and plant production in greenhouses.

Heat Stress... Drink plenty of fluids..
06/05/2026

Heat Stress... Drink plenty of fluids..

Safety experts are warning that growing risks such as heat exposure and hazardous materials are increasing pressure to place greater focus on worker health..

Getting rid of the problem before it occurs
06/05/2026

Getting rid of the problem before it occurs

In a new study published in The EMBO Journal, researchers identified a tick protein that could help block disease transmission before it fully happens. The EMBO Journal, published by the European Molecular Biology Organization, is one of the world’s leading journals in molecular biology.

war with lantern flies
05/20/2026

war with lantern flies

Nearly 200 Cornell Duffield Engineering students exhibited handheld scrapers for insect egg masses, automated vineyard net-lifting systems, and even early-stage mechanical sorters designed to separate invasive spotted lanternflies from harvested grapes.

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05/20/2026

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Most people hear a pileated woodpecker for years before they see one. The hammering sounds like someone beating a dead tree with a bat.

Then she lands on a trunk ten feet away — and the reaction is always the same.

She's the size of a crow. Every other woodpecker at the feeder fits in your hand. Your brain builds a template from downies and hairies: woodpecker equals small. The pileated breaks the template.

The rectangular holes in dead trees are hers. No other woodpecker cuts that shape. And the cavity she drills for nesting becomes the most competed-over address in the woods after she leaves — species that can't excavate their own depend on the ones she abandons.

The dead tree she's working on is the most productive thing in the yard 🌿

Education and Provision of a Pest Management Tool Kit to Residents in Low-Income Housing: Effect on Cockroach Reduction
05/15/2026

Education and Provision of a Pest Management Tool Kit to Residents in Low-Income Housing: Effect on Cockroach Reduction

High rates of pest infestations are frequently reported in low-income homes in the U.S. However, even with access to effective insecticides, most residents are unaware of how to properly control indoor pests. We designed and evaluated the effect of in-home integrated pest management (IPM) education....

05/08/2026

Purdue University has published a Tick manual. Check it out

05/08/2026

2020: COVID

2022: Monkeypox

2024: Bird Flu

and now its

2026: Hantavirus

Just what we need, more issues to deal with....
05/06/2026

Just what we need, more issues to deal with....

A new study has concluded that Climate change is likely to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into parts of South America that have never before faced these diseases—putting new communities of people at risk.

A new product for the prevention and control of the New World Screwworm called Exzolt Cattle-CA1
04/29/2026

A new product for the prevention and control of the New World Screwworm called Exzolt Cattle-CA1

Exzolt Cattle-CA1, a new pour-on parasiticide from Merck, has received FDA conditional approval to help protect cattle from New World screwworm and cattle fever tick.

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