Charlie is paid piece rates— 75 cents per bucket. He’s by far the fastest in his crew. (just a Friday reminder of what we mean when we say #WeFeedYou)

Did you know! Many New England states are considering ditching daylight savings and spending part of our year in the Atlantic timezone. Contact your local representative and tell them how you feel about it! Thanks @joanna_c_chiu for the infographic! images.app.goo.gl/ox1o5jGHwYw1CD…

Planning for an anxiety-fueled field season ahead, I've been making a more deliberate effort to ask for help...and boy have my northeastern tree fruit IPM colleagues risen to the occasion! Check out our YouTube channel :) youtube.com/channel/UCHlIs…

Who has some recent experience buying a dissecting scope and wants to hold my hand a and explain it in plain English with a soft tone?

While I FW her love of bees and respect her obvious skills in apiary—her use of “saving the bees” hits me wrong. She’s saving the bees in the same way raising cows is saving bison. x.com/vaveii/status/…

How many of ya'll growing vegetables or working with vegetable growers have seen problems with ants that lead to crop loss? I need an ant expert Hamilton Allen !

UNH is hiring a State Specialist/Extension Professor of Plant Pathology and Director of the UNH Plant Diagnostic Lab! extension.unh.edu/articles/unh-e… Please retweet to spread the word.

Exciting work from my colleagues at Xerces, NRCS, and UNH Extension! xerces.org/blog/local-pes…

Happy Labor Day.

Come for the figures, stay for the review! This one is a page turner!

Today, I toured Berry Patch Farm in Stephentown with local agricultural leaders. It was great to speak with owner Dale-Ila Riggs and hear about her work to control invasive species and protect her crops.

Oh boy! This is going to be fun :)

Oooooooo! We're starting very small (counting aphids on sentinel wheat grass) but I am so excited to start the field season! We'll be using these sentinel colonies to answer many questions about using biocontrols in high tunnel vegetables NIFA UNH Ag Research Laura L Ingwell

Does anyone have a bioassay method they like for soil-dwelling caterpillars? I'm working on one and its going kind of "meh".

Ooolala! Some beeeautiful photos in this latest from the Weber lab! academic.oup.com/jee/advance-ar…