Welcome to the Cannabis Cautilance Podcast. I'm your host, Tad Hussey of Kiss Organics.

This is the podcast where we discuss the cutting edge of growing from a science-based perspective

and drawn top experts from around the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge.

My guest this week is my good friend, Suzanne Wainwright Evans, also known by many as the Bug Lady.

She's an ornamental entomologist

specializing in integrated pest management. Suzanne has been involved in the green industry

for more than 25 years with a primary focus on biological controls and using pesticides

properly. She is a graduate of the University of Florida with degrees in both entomology

and environmental horticulture. Suzanne has been on the podcast multiple times, and I highly suggest folks go back and listen to

some of her other podcasts if you haven't already.

This podcast, though, is a two-part series where we discuss some of the latest research

in cannabis and hemp from a recent invite-only conference she attended, one of the biggest topics

being viruses and cannabis.

Now on to the show.

Hey, Suzanne, thanks for coming on the show today. Well, thanks for having me. It's always exciting to talk to you.

You had called me recently on the phone to tell me about a conference that you had gone to up in Canada, there were some new information and research that come out that you wanted to share with growers.

So I'll just let you dive in and explain some of the stuff that you learned.

Okay, well, it wasn't in Canada, but that's okay.

One of the researchers there was from Canada.

So that is probably where the confusion happened. It was actually at Colorado State out in Fort Collins.

And it was a hemp research meeting.

It's for the researchers in Western United States that are working on hemp pests.

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