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Posts Tagged: pest notes

Rose Care and Weed Control

Many gardeners and landscapers enjoy growing and caring for roses. Through careful selection of...

Roses
Roses

Roses

Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 10:59 PM
Tags: care (2), control (66), cultivar (1), cultural (1), garden (68), herbicides (3), Karlik (4), landscape (66), Pest Notes (119), pests (74), roses (4), UC IPM (404), weeds (41)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Keep Your Palm Trees Disease-free

Palm trees are commonly seen in California, making some think about the tree-lined streets of...

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Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 4:48 PM
Tags: control (66), disease (54), Hodel (6), IPM (152), kill (1), landscape (66), management (73), palm (2), Pest Notes (119), pests (74), tree (22), UC IPM (404), wilt (1)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Got Gophers?

Gophers are well-known and certainly unwelcome pests in landscapes, gardens, lawns, and athletic...

Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers]
Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers]

Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers]

Characteristic crescent-shaped mound and plugged burrow opening of a pocket gopher. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]
Characteristic crescent-shaped mound and plugged burrow opening of a pocket gopher. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]

Characteristic crescent-shaped mound and plugged burrow opening of a pocket gopher. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]

Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 8:58 PM
Tags: Baldwin (6), damage (19), eating (1), garden (68), gophers (8), landscape (66), lawn (17), mound (2), Pest Notes (119), pests (74), pocket gophers (1), rodent (14), turf (7), UC IPM (404), vegetables (9)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Reduce Soil Pests with Sunlight

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

Posted on Monday, June 3, 2019 at 12:00 PM
Tags: control (66), disease (54), garden (68), heat (1), IPM (152), management (73), pest management (164), Pest Notes (119), pests (74), soil (5), solarization (2), Stapleton (2), UC IPM (404), weeds (41)
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Answers: It's a Trap!

Here are the answers to the traps pictured in yesterday's blog post. How did you do? Let us know in...

Posted on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 3:00 PM
Tags: Asian citrus psyllid (32), clothes moths (7), ground squirrel (9), IPM (152), management (73), pest (210), pest management (164), Pest Notes (119), pests (74), traps (10), tree squirrel (7), UC IPM (404), Windbiel-Rojas (15), yellowjackets (7)
Focus Area Tags: Food, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

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