Pest Management & Plant Health

Mostafa Zamanian, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak on "Combing Target and Whole-Organism Paradigms for Anthelmintic Discovery" at the May 11th virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Depart...

When officials at the Bohart Museum of Entomology asked UC Davis students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows if they would like to create a scientific traveling display case of insect specimens, one of those answering the call was postdoctoral researcher Severyn Korneyev, a Ukrainian entomo...

In a NAISMA blog post, Dr. Beatriz Nobua-Behrmann, Urban Forestry and Natural Resources Advisor with UC Cooperative Extension, explains how to identify infestations by invasive shothole borers and how you can protect your trees from this pest and its pathogenic fungi.

Woodpeckers are well known, colorful birds often found in wooded neighborhoods and forested areas.

From the Rice Notes April 2022 newsletter Kassim Al-Khatib is the Melvin D. Androus Endowed Professor for Weed Science at UC Davis and a Cooperative Extension Weed Science Specialist. Herbicide resistance is a serious problem in California rice.

If a room could beam, Room 122 of Briggs Hall certainly beamed on Saturday, April 23 during the 108th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, showcased forest, medical and agricultural entomology.

Scott McArt, an assistant professor in the Cornell University's Department of Entomology. will speak on "Pesticide Risk to Pollinators: What We Know and What We Need to Know Better" at the Wednesday, May 4 virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

Richard Smith is the Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Farm Advisor and Michael Cahn is the Irrigation and Water Resources Farm Advisor. Both are with the University of California Cooperative Extension in Monterey County.

Doctoral student and forest entomologist Crystal Homicz of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will present her thesis proposal, "Impacts and Management of Western Pine Beetle in the Sierra Nevada During a Period of Rapid Change," at 11 a.m., Monday, April 25 via Zoom.

The UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardener Class Schedule for May, 2022 of classes being held at Stanislaus County Library Branches is here! Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. Vermicomposting - Riverbank Library Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:00 p.m.