Join us for our quarterly in person meeting for a special talk by Dr Olga Kostromytska, "Managing Invasive Species: All About the Asian Jumping Worm". Get your questions answered about everyone's favorite topic! Thursday, January 4th at 5:45. The talk will start at 6, and we will continue on with club updates afterwards starting at 7. Dinner and refreshments will be served. This is a Member Only event. If interested in Membership, check out the 'Get Involved' Page

Extension Assistant Professor Olga Kostromytska received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Entomology from the University of Florida, specializing in turf entomology. Since 2010, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Rutgers University, focusing on the biology and management of annual bluegrass weevil, a destructive pest on golf courses. Some of the projects she worked on were host plant resistance, insecticide resistance, biocontrol options, chemical ecology, and reproductive diapause of the annual bluegrass weevil. Other research interests include the biology and management of white grubs, mole crickets, billbugs, chinchbugs, and cutworms. As an Extension faculty member, she joined the University of Massachusetts in September 2018. Her research program is centered on understanding the biology and ecology of turfgrass insect pests, developing sustainable management strategies with reduced insecticide applications, investigating insecticide resistance mechanisms, and developing resistance mitigation programs. The main goals of her extension program are to identify and solve insect pest problems and provide a solid and rigorous research foundation for practical problem solutions.