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.

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.

04/28/2026

Helping spread the word about the NRC & TNLA Field Day 2026 on May 7 at the Otis L. Floyd Nursery Research Center in McMinnville, Tennessee.

Pesticide applicator recertification points will be offered for both commercial and private applicators, and lunch is sponsored by TNLA.

Speakers and topics include:
• Dr. Karla Addesso – Pest Problems on the Horizon
• Dr. Anthony Witcher – Timing Pre-emergent Herbicide Applications for Nursery Fields
• Dr. Chenchen Kang – Robotic Spraying in Specialty Crops
• Dr. Fulya Baysal-Gurel – Vascular Streak Dieback Updates
• Dr. Jason Oliver – Ambrosia Beetle Management for Nursery Production
• Dr. Jake Shreckhise – Irrigation System Design to Improve Disease Prevention and Uniformity in Nursery Crops

Registration is free and helps organizers plan for lunch: https://tnla.starchapter.com/meetinginfo.php?id=11&ts=1774380822

Event Details:
📅 May 7, 2026
🕗 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Otis L. Floyd Nursery Research Center
472 Cadillac Lane
McMinnville, TN 37110

Please share with anyone who may be interested.

Green Industry Field Day Event to be held in June.
04/28/2026

Green Industry Field Day Event to be held in June.

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2505 E J Chapman Drive, 370 PBB
Knoxville, TN
37996

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