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Reduce Soil Pests with Sunlight

Clear plastic is laid over planting beds to elevate soil temperatures. (Credit: K Windbiel-Rojas)

Soil solarization is a method home gardeners and farmers can use to manage soilborne pests such as...

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Posted on Monday, June 3, 2019 at 12:00 PM

Tags: control (57), disease (45), garden (44), heat (1), IPM (63), management (42), pest management (85), Pest Notes (102), pests (66), soil (3), solarization (2), Stapleton (2), UC IPM (298), weeds (31)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Top 20 Pest Notes of 2017

Larva and adult furniture carpet beetles. [Credit: D-H Choe]

Pests have popularity contests too. We recently looked at how many visits our popular Pest Notes...

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Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 4:31 PM

Author: Anne Schellman
Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: aphids (0), bark (0), bed bugs (0), carpet beetles (0), clothes moths (0), fire blight (0), fungus gnats (0), gophers (0), hives (0), honey bee swarms (0), leaffooted (0), management (0), peach leaf curl (0), Pest Notes (0), rats (0), scale (0), soil solarization (0), spider mites (0), squirrels (0), thrips (0), UC IPM (0), widow spiders (0)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Gnats on Houseplants

Fungus gnat adult caught in yellow sticky trap. (Jack Kelly Clark)

If you have house or office plants and have ever seen small, dark-colored insect swarming around...

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Posted on Monday, October 9, 2017 at 9:55 AM

Tags: flies (4), fungus gnat (4), houseplant (3), indoor (2), potting mix (1), soil (3), UC IPM (298)

Weed Seeds and Their Longevity

Curly dock seeds and achenes.

A repost and link to a recent Weed Science Society of America press release entitled: "About...

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Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 11:18 PM

Author: Brad Hanson

Tags: control (57), longevity (1), seed (2), soil (3), weed (13)

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