What's the Buzz? Talking about Bugs in your Garden with Vic Izzo of UVM
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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Crawling, stinging, feeding, flying…Yikes!
Please join Vic Izzo for an evening talking about bugs in our gardens! Discussion will include topics like Integrated Pest Management (IPM), and tips for developing resilient systems in our backyards despite changing climates. A Q & A will follow the discussion.
Vic Izzo is an evolutionary ecologist, conservation biologist, and agricultural entomologist hailing from the Hudson Valley of New York. His research focuses on developing strategies for sustainable pest management in agricultural landscapes. Vic is the Head of Undergraduate Education for the Institute for Agroecology, the Co-Director of the UVM Environmental Studies Program, and a co-founder of V-PART, a research team dedicated to using Participatory Action Research (PAR) methods to develop sustainable Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies in collaboration with growers in the Northeast.
This talk is sponsored by ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College's Environment Studies program (with funding from the NSF) in partnership with the Robert Frost Stone House Museum.