Pest Management & Plant Health

[From the UC IPM blog Pests in the Urban Landscape] We all encounter pests in our homes, gardens, and landscapes, but which ones are most popular in California? While we can't say for certain, website traffic to UC IPM's Pest Notes gives us a glimpse of popular pests.

Steve Fennimore is a Professor of Extension (Cooperative Extension Weed Specialist) at UC Davis. His office is located in Salinas, California. Small acreage Brassica vegetables need additional herbicide options.

The UC Davis Vector Genetics Laboratory, part of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology (PMI), has been awarded a $10.

Recent wet weather in many parts of the state has spurred emergence of winter weeds. How these weeds are managed varies by the type of weed and where it's growing. In IPM, identification is always the first step toward effective pest management.

Hello! If you signed up for our Planting and Pruning Bare Root Fruit Trees for Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. you should have received an email with the Zoom link and a copy of the presentation. If you still want to sign, please do so now using this link http://ucanr.

It's Friday Fly Day--and time to post images of a syrphid fly. Syrphid flies, often mistaken for honey bees, are pollinators, too. Also known as flower flies and hover flies, syrphids hover over a flower before touching down.

A winter pollinator garden does not buzz with bees; it crawls with earwigs, ants, roly-polys, and other insects. Turn over a rock, a pot, or a garden sculpture and there they are. Well, there one was. An earwig looked up as we lifted a garden sculpture.

If you have peach or nectarine trees that typically have distorted or reddened leaves in spring, they may be affected by peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease caused by a fungus that only affects peach and nectarine trees.

When we first moved to the Owens Valley 12 years ago we inherited a well-stocked garden, one feature of which was a border of raspberries. Sadly, I forgot to ask the previous homeowner which variety they were.

You could say that entomologist Megan Meuti of The Ohio State University (OSU) messes with mosquitoes' circadian clocks. She's hoping she can trick Culex pipiens, the Northern house mosquito, into not biting us.