Pest Management & Plant Health

If you have apple or pear trees in your home orchard, you are no doubt familiar with codling moths. They're the moths that are responsible for wormy fruit, and unless you take steps to control these pests, they can destroy most of your apple or pear crop.

In Spanish Expanded from four chapters in the previous edition to 12, the third edition of Pesticide Safety: A Study Manual for Private Applicators aims to be more than just a study guide.

Western flower thrips adult (Photo courtesy: Jack Kelly Clark, UC IPM) The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is one of the major pests of lettuce in California.

In English Ampliada de cuatro a 12 capitulos, la tercera edicin de Seguridad en el uso de Pesticidas: Un manual de estudio para aplicadores privados pretende ser ms que una simple gua de estudio.

2022 ISHB-FD Symposium Set for April 27 and 28 Ready to take a deeper dive into the secretive world of invasive shothole borers?

Quick question: "Kleptopharmacophagy, a newly described behavior recently observed in milkweed butterflies, is characterized by adult butterflies feeding on milkweed caterpillars.

I have been monitoring conifer mortality in Mendocino, Lake, Napa, and Sonoma Counties for the past year.

Melody Kendall One definition for a weed is a plant that is growing where you don't want it. Typically, weeds get a bad rap. These plants are very efficient and perfectly comfortable in their favored locations with their heightened water absorption and seed dispersal abilities.

Ready to learn about mammoth wasps, medflies, nematodes and pesticide risks to polilnators, or delve into such topics as "Mystery of the Missing Microbes: Why Do Bees Keep Losing Their Symbionts?

The 31st Annual UCR Urban Pest Management Conference was held at UCR HUB (Highlander Union Building) Conference rooms on March 22, 2022. We had over 120 participants from urban pest management industry, state agencies, chemical manufacture, and other educational / research institutes.