Vera taught 2 courses until 2014: ENT 5009, Pesticide Use and Misuse and ENT 4015, Ornamental and Turf IPM. She was author on three books; one published in 2004 by the MN Agricultural Experiment Station on "IPM of Midwest Landscapes", 316 pp. She is director of CUES: Center for sustainable urban ecosystems that promote IPM and pollinator conservation, online at http://cues.cfans.umn.edu/old/ In 2010 and 2014 Krischik received an LCCMR grant on Mitigating Pollinator decline. An outreach a poster on the right plants for bees, a protecting bee bulletin, pesticide and bee bulletin, and an online workshop are available at the CUES Website under Pollinator Conservations at http://cues.cfans.umn.edu/old/; Vera maintains 2 other websites: UM extension greenhouse, nursery, and landscape website; www.extension.umn.edu/garden/plant-nursery-health/ and CFANS CUES website cues.cfans.umn.edu/