Pest Management & Plant Health

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.

Root-inhibiting herbicides (like pendimethalin or trifluralin) are soil-applied and pre-plant incorporated as a standard practice for conventional processing tomatoes in the Sacramento Valley.

Winning an Editors' Choice Award was a milestone for an international research team, including UC Davis entomologist Elvira de Lange. De Lange assembled a project team that wrote a research paper on the agricultural use of drones, published last February in the Journal of Economic Entomology (JEE).

A research paper on the agricultural use of drones, co-authored by a four-member international team including UC Davis entomologist Elvira de Lange and published last February in the Journal of Economic Entomology, has won the prestigious 2021 Editors' Choice Award.

He's a giant in his field--a veritable Sequoia in the flatlands. But he's an entomologist with an incredible reach that extends in practically all corners of the insect science world.

UC Davis distinguished professor Frank Zalom, a noted integrated pest management (IPM) specialist and a past president of the Entomological Society of America (ESA), is a newly elected Honorary Member of the ESA, an honor bestowed for his long-term dedication and extraordinary contributions to the 7...

The Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of California, Davis, is in the news today, and what wonderful, exciting news! Jason Bond, UC Davis professor of entomology and the Evert and Marion Schlinger endowed chair in insect systematics is a newly selected co-editor-in-chief of t...

Jason Bond, professor of entomology and the Evert and Marion Schlinger endowed chair in insect systematics, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and Hojun Song, an associate professor of entomology at Texas A&M University, are the newly selected co-editors-in-chief of the journal Insect...

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