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Emerald Ash Borer: Current Status, Trends, and New Resources for Landowners and Managers through the University of Minnesota Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative & University of Minnesota Extension Webinar Series held on 9/15/2020. EAB Biocontrol Forest Management presentation was given on 11/6/2020 for the Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference. EAB Community Forestry Webinar – hour long webinar held on 12/10/2020 with presentation from Emily Ball (City Forester) and Emma Schultz (MNDNR Community Forest Project Specialist). Recording can be viewed here or at MDA’s EAB webpage. The MDA is contracting Don’t Move Firewood advertisements with Wildlife Forever. Streaming TV, gas stations, billboards, and newsprint are a few of the media outlets being utilized. Ads ran through November 2020 and will also run in April 2021. Plant Pest Insider articles about EAB are typically sent out monthly. If you need copies of EAB handouts please request them by email arrest.the.pest@state.mn.us Upcoming MDA Outreach Outdoor EAB biology, detection and management workshops are being planned for the month of March. Dates, locations and registration will be available soon. Each hour-long workshop will be limited to a maximum attendance of 25 people. Likely locations include Nobles, Rice, Scott, Stearns and Washington Counties. EAB community and forest management webinars are being planned for the end of March or early April. An agenda with topics and speakers will be available in February. . All EAB workshop and webinar dates/times/registrations will be posted at www.mda.state.mn/eab The MDA was awarded a USDA PPA 7721 grant to continue Forest Pest Outreach including Don’t Move Firewood advertisements. Part of the funds will be used for advertisements May-Oct 2021 and April 2022. DNR No Updates Biologoical Control Parasitoid releases concluded the last week of September for the 2020 season. MDA released a total of 16,847 parasitoids across seven sites. This included 4,465 Spathius galinae, 4,062 Tetrastichus planipennisi and 8,320 Oobius agrili. Release numbers were down due to COVID precautions at the rearing facility as well as a restructuring of the methods for parasitoid releases to allow for a greater production of the larval parasitoid Spathius galinae. Beginning in 2020 and moving forward, release sites will receive primarily Tetrastichus planipennisi in the first year of releases and the two other parasitoids in year two. Only one release site was in the first year of releases which accounts for lower numbers of T. planipennisi released in 2020. MDA will continue to release parasitoids at five sites throughout the state in 2021. MDA is currently working with USDA on planning releases and gaining permission from land managers for new sites. Four new sites have been identified for the upcoming release season: Lake Elmo County Park in Washington County, Coon Rapids