Want to dig deeper? Join us Oct 7 for a Bee Safe, Grow Well webinar with Sarah Salatino of Full Circle Gardens and Xerces staff. Learn how nurseries can grow plants that are safer for pollinators - and bring your questions, there will be lots of time for Q&A! 🌸🐝 xerces.org/events/bee-s...

Prophylactic seed treatments make up an increasingly large share of ag pesticide load, but have no basis in scouting/thresholds - and in millions of acres of corn/soy, limited to no benefit for crop yields. We need both policy and incentives to shift towards more sustainable approaches.

The question is: how do we shift practice at scale? What training, tools, policy, or financial incentives could help make threshold-based pest management the norm?

This is why we emphasize scouting/monitoring and use of thresholds as core components of IPM. Nice to see the evidence for how scouting/thresholds can reduce inputs and improve outcomes!

And stay tuned: we'll be putting together at least a webinar or two by the spring to explain and explore EPA's Insecticide and Herbicide Strategies and what they might mean for listed species

Like rubbing salt in a wound, it can also just be wildly inaccurate. Four syllable words?
banana: sure, just make sure to pronounce it ba-na-na-na

For more, read our blog about this monarch kill: xerces.org/blog/how-urb...