The Grain Post-Harvest & Recertification Workshop, hosted by the Purdue DTC is geared toward farmers, commercial grain storage handlers, pest management professionals and food processing quality-control managers.
The workshop goal is to help attendees effectively manage postharvest grain storage and handling systems to reduce pests, choose appropriate pest-control strategies, adopt integrated pest management systems and prevent grain from going out of condition in storage.
Insects Limited’s, Ethan Estabrook will be presenting “Stored Product Insects”. Stored product insects cause billions of dollars of damage to the stored product industry every year. Whether you work with food, animal feed, grains, seeds, textiles, tobacco, or taxidermy – START WITH THE INSECT FIRST! Identifying the insect and understanding their biology is the first step to an effective integrated pest management program. In this presentation we identify some of the most common stored product insects, their biology, and food habits.
