Gardening

It's spooky season and we wanted to share a few of our favorite Halloween horror themed pests you may see now, or at other times of the year.

It's that time of year again: termite swarm season! Western subterranean termites, Reticulitermes hesperus (species complex), produce reproductive swarms during calm sunny periods immediately following the first autumn rains.

We are pleased to announce our new YouTube playlist for the Urban & Community IPM Webinars.

Now is the time for planting cool-season vegetables like broccoli, carrots, and spinach. We are pleased to share new pest management resources for other cool season vegetables including beets, chard, radishes or turnips.

Licensing for perimeter spraying under California's pest control laws is dependent on the situation and site (Table 1).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Advisory recently in response to increased reports of illness associated with products containing the pesticide ivermectin.

The next Urban & Community IPM webinar will be Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 1:00pm. This month's topic is Identifying Insect Pests in the Home and Garden, presented by Elaine Lander.

If your company does residential landscape pest control, your employees should be trained to know what to do when they encounter a vegetable garden, or fruit or nut trees in a yard (Figure 1).

Two identical looking species of wood-boring beetles, collectively known as invasive shothole borers (ISHB), have killed thousands of trees in Southern California and pose an ongoing threat to California's urban and wildland forests.

Summer is upon us so what does that mean for California ground squirrel management? As a practitioner of IPM, you are likely aware that effective ground squirrel management requires an integrated approach, including knowledge of pest biology.