Pest Management & Plant Health

Celebrate National Honey Bee Day by brushing up on your knowledge of bee protectioncheck out the newly revised Best Management Practices to Protect Bees from Pesticides and Bee Precaution Pesticide Ratings from UC IPM.

There are two (2) new posts on the UC Rice Blog written by Whitney Brim-DeForest, Cooperative Extension Rice Advisor.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Apricot Tree Showing Signs of Brown Rot by Chantal Guillemin , Master Gardener Request: My Royal (Blenheim) apricot tree usually produces delicious fruit, but this year almost all had brown disco...

This is a follow up article to a blog that my colleague, Guy Kyser wrote back in 2011 titled Purple alert: Common Pokeweed. Since that time, I probably get a dozen or so calls this time of year asking, what is that huge weed growing in my yard with dark black berries and big green leaves.

Next time you're on Higuera St. in downtown SLO, look up. Cal Poly entomology professor, Dr. David Headrick, is taking biological control to new heights! Here's his story: An invasive whitefly pest is attacking our giant fig trees in downtown SLO.

If you're like most of us, you go bananas for a banana for breakfast. It's healthy, nutritious and packed with potassium. But wait! You should probably go bananas for another fruit--that pear-shaped avocado. Did you know the avocado provides more potassium than a banana? It does.

Talk about extremes! Have you ever thought about how some insects have adapted to fire, ice, acid, hot water, salt and the desert? Have you ever seen an ambrosia beetle, a red turpentine beetle, an ice cricket, a brine fly or a sand wasp?

The UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology will emphasize "fire and insects" when it hosts an open house, Extreme Insects: Fire and Ice, on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 19. The public event, to take place from 1 to 4 p.m.

Six communicators affiliated with the University of California, Davis, or the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) received a total of 10 awards for excellence at the 2018 conference of the international Association for Communication Excellence in Agricultu...

I recently attended a Santa Ana River Orange County Weed Management Area (SAROCWMA) meeting and there was an opportunity for participants to update the group about new invasive plants as well as give an update on management of these and others.