Pest Management & Plant Health

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Townhouses with landscaping.
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Blog Feedback Wanted

August 19, 2020
The Pests in the Urban Landscape blog shares pest information for residents, retailers, landscape professionals, structural pest control professionals, and more.
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2020 Field Walk with UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crops Advisor Zheng Wang
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

2020 Field Walk - weed management in basil

August 19, 2020
By Gale Perez
With COVID-19, we've had to skip hosting in-person field day events and come up with creative ways to extend research results and information.
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This is the giant water bath created from a leftover evaporative cooler from the Michael Parrella lab.
Bug Squad: Article

Emily Bick: Salinity, the Water Hyacinth and a Weevil

August 12, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If that heavy growth of water hyacinth in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in central California alarms you, then you'll want to read a newly published research paper that provides the most thorough look at how salinity impacts the invasive plant and its biological control agent, the weevil Neocheti...
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Green fruit beetle (Credit: Jack Kelly Clark)
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Green Fruit Beetles or Japanese Beetles?

August 12, 2020
We've had many reports in the last two weeks from people asking what those big green, buzzing, beetles are. Green fruit beetles (Cotinis mutabilis) are members of the scarab beetle family and are sometimes known as fig beetles or figeater beetles. They are related to green June beetles (C.
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Figure 1: Branched broomrape infestation in a processing tomato field in California.
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Getting familiar with branched broomrape: a parasitic weed in California processing tomato

August 12, 2020
By Brad Hanson
Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa), a weedy parasitic plant that can cause devastating damage to many economically important wide range of broadleaf crops including tomato, cabbage, potato, eggplant, carrot, pepper, beans, celery, peanut and sunflower has recently re-emerged in fields in Centra...
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Summer 2020 Retail Newsletter
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Summer 2020 Retail Newsletter

August 10, 2020
The Summer 2020 issue of the Retail Nursery and Garden Center IPM Newsletter is now available online.
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Lettuce in a garden. (Pixabay.com)
The Stanislaus Sprout: Article

Sign up for Fall Vegetable Gardening Class Now!

August 10, 2020
By Anne E Schellman
Summer weather is still going strong, and so are tomato and other veggie plants. Believe it or not, it's already time to start planning your fall vegetable garden! In fact, some vegetables need to be started from seed very soon.
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A giant water bath housed Emily Bick's UC Davis research project on water hyacinth and its biological control agent, Neochetina bruchi. It was built by colleagues Danny Klittich and Bob Starnes.
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Emily Bick: How Salinity Impacts Water Hyacinth and a Biological Control Agent

August 7, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A newly published research paper authored by UC Davis-trained entomologist Emily Bick provides the most thorough look at how salinity impacts water hyacinth and its biological control agent, the weevil Neochetina bruchi. The paper appears in the current edition of Journal of Hydrobiologia.
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