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Seeing Japanese beetles in your California landscape? Not likely.

Japanese beetle (Credit: D. Cappaert, Bugwood.org)

Originally posted August 26, 2016; edited July 10, 2018 Have you seen big green beetles in your...

Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 10:00 PM
Tags: beetle (1), CDFA (1), chafer (1), green (1), grubs (1), hoplia (1), Japanese (1), June (1), lawn (6), pests (1), UCIPM (1)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management Yard & Garden

Dandelions in the Landscape

Flowering dandelion. (Photo: Gerald and Buff Corsi)

Dandelions are broadleaf plants easily recognizable by their bright yellow flower and puffball of...

Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 9:40 PM
Tags: control (1), Dandelion (1), landscape (2), lawn (6), puffball (1), Roncoroni (1), turf (2), UC IPM (2), weed (1)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management Yard & Garden

Mushrooms and Other Nuisance Fungi in Lawns

Newly emerged inky cap mushrooms, Coprinus comatus. [R.M.Davis]

Wet weather is favorable to mushrooms, which are sometimes called toadstools. Mushrooms are the...

Posted on Monday, January 30, 2017 at 11:30 AM
Tags: bird''s nests (1), fungi (1), lawn (6), mushrooms (1), nuisance (1), puffballs (1), spores (1), stinkhorns (1), toadstools (1)

‘Mosquito Hawks’ in Your House?

Adult crane fly.

You may be seeing long-legged, flying insects in your house lately, bouncing around the walls,...

Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 9:25 PM
Tags: aerate (1), crane flies (1), eater (1), hawk (1), insects (1), lawn (6), mosquito (1), Pest Notes (1), thatch (1), turf (2), turfgrass (1), UC IPM (2)

Drought in the Landscape: Water Conservation Q & A

photo by UC ANR

[From the August 2015 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] Q.  How much water do landscapes...

Posted on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 9:41 AM
Tags: conservation (1), drip (1), drought (1), grass (1), irrigation (1), landscape (2), lawn (6), native (1), Pittenger (1), sprinkler (1), sprinklers (1), tree (1), trees (1), UCCE (1), water (1)

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