[Scpg] How to recognize the beneficials: Insects as biocontrol agents in the garden Friday, May 19, 3:00 p.m. UCSB , Santa Barbara

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

WHAT: How to recognize the beneficials: Insects as biocontrol agents in the 
garden
WHEN: Friday, May 19, 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (at 
Harder Stadium)  University of  California Santa Barbara

WHO: Sean L. Swezey, an entomologist and associate director of the UC Santa 
Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

SPONSORED BY: Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration 
and Environmental Studies’ Small-Scale Food Production class
Join us for this entertaining, eye-opening talk followed by a question and 
answer session to be held this Friday May 19th at 3 pm, free to the public. 
Free snacks and beverages will be provided!

The talk will center around the recognition of beneficial insects for use 
as biocontrol agents in a garden setting. Topics will range from basic 
recognition of beneficial insects to the ecology and function of these 
groups as a whole. The focus will be how to take advantage of these 
beneficials in the garden. Live demonstrations will be provided!
Swezey received his A.B. and M.A. in anthropology, a B.S. in conservation 
and resource studies, and a Ph.D. in entomological sciences­all at UC 
Berkeley. His career includes teaching and research appointments at UC 
Berkeley, Cornell University and UC Santa Cruz. He also served as a 
consulting entomologist with the Organization of American States and the 
Food and Agriculture Organization. Since 1996 he has worked as associate 
director of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC 
Santa Cruz and from 2000-2005 served as director of the UC Sustainable 
Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP).

Swezey is an accomplished field researcher in a variety of agricultural 
systems including apples, strawberries and artichokes. He has earned a 
number of academic achievements, honors and fellowships and has been 
awarded numerous grants to study a wide variety of sustainable farming 
systems. In addition to work on coastal crops, Swezey studied conversion of 
conventional to organic cotton farming in the San Joaquin Valley. He has 
authored more than two dozen articles in peer-reviewed research 
periodicals, including DANR's /California Agriculture /magazine.