Pest Management & Plant Health

A virtual seminar to be hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on Wednesday, Oct. 21 should draw widespread interest, especially with the discovery last month of Aedes aegypti in Yolo County.

Mosquito researcher Maria Onyango, a postdoctoral associate at the New York State Department of Health, Albany, N.Y., will deliver a virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on Wednesday, Oct.

This article appeared in CAPCA Adviser, October 2020, pages 40-44. CA Association of Pest Control Advisers It is not uncommon for commercial agriculture to share a common boundary with riparian, forested or urban areas in California.

Mark your calendar. The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, is hosting a virtual open house dealing with alfalfa and rice.

Want to learn more about arthropods in rice and alfalfa fields and the UC Davis research underway to help the agriculturists?

As the days get shorter and the temperatures begin to cool, now is the time to practice weed management for annual cool-season weeds. It's also not too early to consider management for weeds that emerge in springtime.

Durante el mes de octubre, UC ANR ofrece una serie de webinarios gratis sobre las plagas de rboles que estn afectando nuestra regin, incluyendo un webinario completamente en espaol. El tema? Los escarabajos barrenadores invasores (tambin conocidos como invasive shot hole borer o ISHB en ingles).

Sometimes distant relationships are better than close relationships.

Over the last few years, UC Davis Weed Science has been testing cover crops for weed suppression in nut orchards. The most recent project we've been working on has trialed several cover crop programs using cereal rye in walnut orchards.

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