Webinar Recording: It’s a Bugs Eat Bugs World – How to Harness Nature to Manage Pests

According to the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation, annual losses due to pests and diseases are estimated to be around $ 200-300 billion globally, with up to 40% of crop losses caused by pests & disease. To try to combat this, pesticide usage goes up every year but crop losses remain high. What are we doing wrong and how can we fix it?

This Talkin’ After Hours webinar presented by entomologist Dr Anthony Rice from Granite Belt Integrated Pest Management, takes a dive into the world of IPM and how we can reduce our use of pesticides by using bugs to manage other not so welcome bugs. Questions answered in the webinar include:

• Why do we need to change how we are managing our agricultural pests, biodiversity declines and the threat to our natural ecosystems?
• What is IPM?
• How do I get started with IPM on my farm?
• What else can we all be doing to help the spineless majority?

Webinar Resources

This Lower Blackwood LCDC event forms part of a collaborative project with RegenWA called ‘Make Your Hectare Count’. The project is supported by funding from the Western Australian Government’s State NRM Program (State Natural Resource Management Program)