Bug Day at the golf course

Florida superintendent hosts school program at course.

John Cunningham, CGCS, golf course superintendent at Black Diamond Ranch Golf Course in Lacanto, Fla., recently organized and conducted a two-day event designed to teach sixth-grade students about insects. He taught classes in insect physiology and identification at a local school the first day and invited 150 students and their teachers to his golf course the second day.

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John Cunningham shows students how he uses light traps to capture beetles and determine threshhold levels for timely pesticide applications.

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John Cunningham tells students about the environmental benefits of golf courses.