Pest Management & Plant Health

UC Davis undergraduate student Juan Amado Ado Sales, a member of the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology and a laboratory assistant for nematologist Shahid Siddique, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has just been awarded a coveted summer fellowship from the UC Davis Innovati...

Backyard chickens are increasingly being raised as pets, for egg production, and for youth development and science projects. While raising chickens can be an interesting and economically beneficial activity, chickens and other fowl may also have pest problems.

Congratulations to emeritus Cooperative Extension specialist Vernard Lewis of UC Berkeley, selected to deliver the Founders' Memorial Lecture at the 2021 annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA), set Oct. 31-Nov. 3 at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver.

Planting a vegetable garden can be a healthy and delicious way to provide yourself and your family with produce.

The beetles are coming! No, this is not a historical reference to that famed rock band from Liverpool. These are real beetles. The insects.

Richard Smith is the UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Farm Advisor in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. Automated weeders remove weeds inside the three- to five-inch-wide uncultivated band left around the seedline by standard cultivation.

While you are outside gardening or inside doing your spring cleaning, you may have recently found small, round, speckled beetles you've never seen before.

Honey bee experts at UC Davis and Oregon State University (OSU) will teach a free online bee biology course aimed at training veterinarians in their new role in supporting beekeepers and maintaining the health of bee colonies.

If you're a veterinarian or a veterinary technician in California or Oregon, then you'll want to register for a free online bee biology course aimed at training veterinarians in their new role in supporting beekeepers and maintaining the health of bee colonies.

Instructions for making homemade mixtures to control pests are easy to find online and in social media, and it's tempting to make your own home remedy when pests invade.