Description

January 24^th, 2025, Hybrid in-person and remote training session, from 9:00 AM to 4 PM CT.

Location: Burden Botanical Gardens, 4560 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70810

Lunches and refreshments will be provided

Cost of registration, (Covered by LSU)

( There is Limited seating for in person and online attendance) 50 in person and 50 online

REQUIREMENTS: It is required that you sign up for both events in order to receive full credit. 

We have approval of structural pest control technician and licensee (commercial vertebrate, general pest and termite). Commercial applicator categories, rodent, public health, which are 7B, 7C1, 7C2, 8B and 8C for LA.

If attending remotely, please be sure to indicate that on the sign-in sheet.  The first 2 hours will be a separate login from the later 4 hours. We recommend that you sign up for the later 4 hours as well since we will join the UGA GTBOP for the afternoon training session.

( This is required to receive full credit)

Program Overview for Regulatory Agencies. The initial two-hour session will be on rodent management, their health impacts, and inspections.  Afterwards we will discuss bed bug management in urban settings, new products, inspections, and best practices. We will then transition to a 4-hour webinar focused on identification, current status, and basic methods of control of subterranean and drywood termites, with particular emphasis on the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes Formosans. The intended audience is the pest control industry in the Southeastern U.S., and in areas, such as California, outside the southeast where Formosan termites are known to exist. This training presentation is an output of the North American Termite Survey working group, supported by the Southern IPM Center. The session is also supported by the UGA GTBOP, LSU Pesticide Safety Office and the Gulf South Vector Collaborative.

Registration links

REQUIREMENTS: It is required that you sign up for both events in order to receive full credit. 

Morning Session: Please click here for morning registration signup

Afternoon Session: Please Click here for afternoon registration signup

See Schedule Below

All times are central time.

9:00 to 9:30 – Introductory remarks, Gulf South VECTOR core survey

9:30 to 10:00 – FIFRA and Louisiana laws, rules, and regulations – Mr. Joe Ingrao, Pesticide Applicator Certification & Training Program Coordinator

10:00 to 11:00 AM – Rodents as vectors of disease, conducive conditions, inspections and management – Dr. Claudia Riegel, Director of the New Orleans Mosquito, Rodent and Termite Control Board

11:00 to 12:00 AM – Bed bugs, health effects, PPE, inspection, record keeping, environmental hazards, and management

12:00 to 12:05 NATS working group introduction and goals – Dr. Aaron R. Ashbrook, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

12:05 to 12:30 “Tales of termite trails: how did the Formosan subterranean termite get here” – Dr. Claudia Hussenader, Professor, Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

12:30 to 1:00 2-minute recordings of NATS working group members providing updates to FST distribution maps in their states. (KY AR not included as no reported FST so far)

Alabama- Drs. Nobuaki Mizumoto or Xing Ping Hu

California- Drs. Siavash Taravati or Chow-Yang Lee

Florida- Dr. Thomas Chouvenc

Georgia- Dr. Dan Suiter

Louisiana- Dr. Carrie Cottone

Mississippi- Dr. Jose Santos Portugal

North Carolina- Dr. Chris Hayes

South Carolina- Dr. Eric Benson

Tennessee- Dr. Karen Vail

Texas- Drs. Robert Puckett or Janet Hurley

1:00 to 1:05 Pre-survey for identification training

1:05 to 1:55 “Formosan subterranean termite alate identification and differentiating them from co-swarming alates”- Dr. Thomas Chouvenc, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida Ft. Lauderdale Research and Education Center, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

1:55 to 2:00 post-survey for identification training to capture a change in knowledge

2:00 to 3:00 “Subterranean and drywood termite management”- Dr. Brian Forschler, Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

3:00 to 4:00 “Formosan subterranean termite inspections, safety, and proper applications”- Dr. Faith Oi, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.