Overview
- Insect surveying and collection of natural enemies
- Providing insect pest management advice in greenhouse vegetable and Cannabis, field vegetable, fruit trees, landscape and urban forestry
- Developing pest management programs and training production staff
- Insect identification
- Contract research
Client Focus
The client areas I focus on are:
- home gardeners
- landscapers
- organic and sustainable growers
- organic cannabis growers (greenhouse and outdoor)
- in the Okanagan and Kootenays areas
Contract examples
- Evaluation of Boron to control Mountain pine beetle
- Detection and identification of filth fly (Stomoxys calcitrans (Muscidae), a human pest defacing property next to a feed lot
- Cherry Fruitworm Surveillance and Seasonal Abundance in Cherries in Southern Interior BC
- Surveillance of balsam woolly adelgid, Adelges piceae in British Columbia
Entomologic 