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Webinars about Integrated Pest Management

The EPA Center for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) hosts free webinars featuring experts relaying educational and practical strategies for establishing and improving IPM programs in your facilities and environments.

On-Demand Webinars

Follow these links to view the recordings.

IPM in Agriculture Using Low Toxicity Pesticides: A Four-Part Series Focused on Indian Country

Clean waters provide healthy ecosystems for wildlife, plants, and people and it's important to protect these waters from unnecessary contamination. Pesticides applied to farmlands, lawns, and rights-of-way areas have the potential to make their way into water systems that connect to the drinking water supply and irrigation and fisheries that Tribes depend on for subsistence, agriculture, and cultural practices. This webinar series covers four topics:

  • Reducing Pesticides in Water in Indian Country Through IPM: An Introduction to the Problem
  • Integrated Approaches to Control Invasive and Noxious Plants in Riparian and Watershed Areas
  • Reducing Pesticides in Water in Indian Country Through IPM: Strategies to Reduce Pesticide Impacts on Surface and Ground Water
  • Reducing Pesticides in Water in Indian Country Through IPM: Strategies for Control and Management of Weeds, Insects and Other Pests

Getting Started: IPM 101

  • Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan: Learn How to Develop a Comprehensive IPM Program 
  • Pests of Public Health Importance and the Role of Integrated Pest Management in Schools
  • Back-To-School with IPM
  • Writing an IPM Policy for Your School District
  • The Basics of School IPM
  • Excluding Pests From Schools

Resources and Guidance

  • Fungal Biopesticides - The Fungus Among Us: A Growing Option in Pest Control
  • Excluding Pests from Schools
  • Managing Common Indoor Pests: Cockroaches, Rodents, and Fleas
  • Pesticide Labels Demystified: Guidance on Understanding Pesticide Labels
    • Listen to and view Spanish recorded webinar
  • IPM After the Storm - Vector Considerations - Part 1
  • IPM After the Storm - Vector Considerations - Part 2
  • Addressing Disease Mitigation in Schools, Daycare Centers and Universities with Sanitizers and Disinfectants 
  • Stop School Pests and iPestManager - School IPM Educational Programs
  • Pest Prevention by Design in Schools
  • How to Conduct a Pest Assessment at Your School

Pollinators

  • Protecting Honey Bees: Integrated Pest Management for Varroa Mites
  • Creating Monarch Habitats For Schools and Communities
  • IntereSTING IPM Webinar Topic: Controlling Yellow Jackets and Wasps on School Grounds

Bed Bugs, Lice and Fleas

  • Encountering Bed Bugs on Travel
  • Managing Bed Bugs on a Budget
  • Which Came First? The Bed or the Bug? Bed Bugs 201
  • Managing Head Lice in Schools
  • Bed Bugs on Tribal Lands
  • Head Lice – An Expert Panel Discussion 
  • Fleas – Pet Annoyance and Public Health Issue 

Cockroaches

  • Cockroaches in Your School…You Rarely Find Just One

Ants and Termites

  • Tree Destroyers: Termites and Carpenter Ants
  • Termites: Eating You Out of House and Home?
  • Termite Mitigation in Schools - A Holistic Approach
  • Ants - The #1 Pest in Schools

Ticks

  • Ticks - Latest in Prevention and Control
  • Creating Tick Safe Schools Using IPM

Mosquitoes

  • View recordings of webinars in our four part series on mosquitoes:
    • Integrated Mosquito Management in an Urban Environment
    • Managing Mosquitoes Around the Home
    • Using GIS to Improve Integrated Mosquito Management
    • Pesticide Resistance Testing to Improve Mosquito Management
  • Protecting Students from Mosquitoes and Zika Virus at School
  • Mosquitoes – Right Trap, Right Place
  • Innovative Tools in Mosquito Control - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Vertebrate Pests

  • Managing Rodents with Integrated Pest Management and New Technologies
  • Preventing Overwintering Vertebrate Pests in Buildings
  • Integrated Approaches to Deer Management
  • Rodents I – Prevention and Control 
  • Rodents II – Prevention and Control 
  • Rodents III – Post-Infestation Clean-Up Tips
  • Pest Control Should Not Drive You Batty: How to Manage Bats Effectively in Your School District
  • Vertebrate Turf Pests on School Grounds
  • Contending with Vertebrate Pests Around Schools
  • Keeping Rodents Out of Your School

Site-Specific Places Call for Specific Action

  • Integrated Vegetation Management on Rights-of-Ways
  • ​Weeds: Nature's Graffiti - How IPM Can Fix That
  • Feed the Kids, Not the Pests: Effective IPM for Cafeterias and Kitchens
  • IPM for Turf on School Grounds
  • Integrated Pest Management in Restaurants

Tree and Outdoor Plant Management 

  • Fungal Disease Management for Ornamental Plants

  • Protecting Boxwoods Against Blight and Box Tree Moth

  • Beech Leaf and Bark Diseases: Emerging Threats to Beech Trees

  • Invasive Woody Plant Management – Part 1 of 3

  • Invasive Woody Plant Management – Part 2 of 3
  • Invasive Woody Plant Management - Part 3 of 3
  • Identification and Management of Hemlock Pests
  • Managing Troublesome Vines
  • IPM For Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Woody Ornamentals
  • The Beetle with Some Bling: Emerald Ash Borer - Integrated Pest Management and Biological Controls
  • IPM for Spotted Lanternfly
  • Spotted Lanternfly Control Updates
  • Managing Pests of Pines
  • Identifying and Managing Toxic Plants
  • Updates for Managing the Asian Long-horned Beetle

Managing Pests in Schools

  • Introduction to IPM
  • Start an IPM Program
  • On-Demand IPM Webinars
  • Register for IPM Webinars
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Last updated on March 24, 2025
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