Pest Management & Plant Health

From the Retail Nursery an Garden Center IPM News Fall 2018 newsletter Nurseries and garden centers often sell a wide range of plants for use in gardens and landscapes.

Where are you most likely to encounter a rheophilic insect? If you know the answer to that, you could have scored at the Linnaean Games competition at the recent meeting of the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA). The answer: "In moving streams.

(News Flash: Congratulations to the UC Berkeley-UC Davis team! They won the national championship at the ESA meeting held Nov. 11-14 in Vancouver, B.

Learn about opportunities to receive continuing education hours. October is upon us and before you know it, we'll be wrapped up in the busy holiday season.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request: Something has literally destroyed my cabbage. A month ago I found large groups of tiny white bugs on the bottom of some leaves, possibly spider mites.

"How do animals filter sensory information from their environment and integrate it with their past experience and their internal states to produce an appropriate behavioral response?" asks Fred Wolf, assistant professor at UC Merced.

[Originally published in the Fall 2018 issue of the Green Bulletin. Modified slightly from original.] Invasive wood-boring beetles are attacking hundreds of thousands of trees in southern California, including commercial avocados, and trees within urban landscapes and wildland environments.

Learn about opportunities to receive continuing education hours. October is upon us and before you know it, we'll be wrapped up in the busy holiday season.

Talk about insect-inspired fashions! Insects are in.

The Asian citrus psyllid is an insect that can carry a deadly tree disease called Huanglongbing or citrus greening.