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2019 Summer Highlights
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Here’s the Latest…
October 19, 2019 (Saturday) – Bugtoberfest 2109 Keynote Presentation and Four-Course Insect Tasting
- Families can sink their teeth into four chef demonstrated recipes featuring creepy crawlers including crickets, grasshoppers, mealworms and black ants. The lineup for chefs this year will include Angie Gutierrez from Texas A&M AgriLife, Chef Michael Grimes co-founder of Southern Grit Flavor, Chef Toby Soto owner of Humo of San Antonio and Chef Katrina Flores from San Antonio Botanical Garden. These local chefs will enlighten visitors about the sustainability and high protein power of insects. Menu forthcoming, but trust it will be memorable and tasty! Ticketed program features Jonathan Cammack, chief operating officer at EVO Conversion Systems, who will talk on the modern entomophagy movement, the use of insects as food and feed. All ages welcome!
- $25 per person ($22.50 member) for keynote and tastings
- $35 ($31.50 members) for keynote and tastings with drink pairing (21+ years of age with valid ID)
- San Antonio Botanical Garden
- Location: 555 Funston Place, San Antonio, TX 78209
- Time: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
- Click here to register.
November 1, 2019 (Friday) – Private Applicator Training
- Total Cost is $50 (includes registration fee and materials)
- The study manuals can be purchased in advance from the Extension Office. Make check/money order payable to “Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service”.
- There will be additional fees associated with applying for a license and for online testing.
- Call (210) 631-0400 and ask for Patricia Valdillez.
- For registration and details Click here
December 13, 2019 (Friday) – Texas A&M AgriLife’s Winter 2019 CEU Program
- Hardberger Park Urban Ecology Center (8400 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78230)
- Registration coming soon
- Structural Licenses – 6 CEUs offered*
- 2 General, 1 Pest, 1 Termite, 1 L/O, 1 Weed
- If you have your license in pest, termite, lawn and ornamental and/or weed, this will satisfy your CEU needs for 2019.
- * still awaiting approval of CEUs from TDA
- Ag Licenses (non Structural licenses) – 5 CEUs offered
- 2 IPM, 2 Pest Features , 1 Safety/General
- Topics – Fire Ant Management, Filth Flies, Weeds, Landscape Pest Management, and Safety
- Molly Keck
- Integrated Pest Management Program Specialist
- Board Certified Entomologist
- 210-631-0400
- mekeck@ag.tamu.edu
- Bexarento@blogspot.com
