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Apply Now: Pesticide Safety Educator

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The UC Statewide IPM Program is hiring a Pesticide Safety Educator to...

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Posted on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 12:02 PM

Tags: ANR (6), Davis (3), educator (3), hiring (5), job (6), position (6), UC IPM (281), urban (10)

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

The Truth About Turkeys

A flock of wild turkeys in a residential neighborhood.<br>(Credit: K Windbiel-Rojas)

It has been rumored that Ben Franklin proposed the turkey as the national bird and symbol of...

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Posted on Monday, November 25, 2019 at 4:55 PM

Author: Elaine Lander

Tags: California Department Fish and Wildllife (2), CDFW (4), community (5), community (5), control (54), pest (105), pest management (69), thanksgiving (3), UC IPM (281), urban (10), wild turkey (2), wildlife (10)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Job Opening: Urban IPM Educator

Syphid fly on flower.

The UC Statewide IPM Program, which is a part of the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources,...

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Syphid fly on flower.

Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 5:15 PM

Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: ANR (6), community (5), educator (3), hiring (5), IPM (63), job (6), pest management (69), position (6), UC IPM (281), urban (10)

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

Using Seaweed to Kill Argentine Ants

Fig 1. Argentine ants feeding on green or red hydrogels to demonstrate liquid bait uptake. (Credit: J-W Tay, UC Riverside)

[From the Spring issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] Argentine ants can be a damaging ant pest...

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Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 8:00 PM

Tags: argentine ant (1), Ashok Mulchandani (1), Dong-Hwan Choe (4), DPR (19), fipronil (3), green bulletin (5), hydrogel (1), insecticides (4), Jia-Wei Tay (1), Mark Hoddle (1), pest management professionals (5), pyrethroid (1), runoff (1), UC IPM (281), urban (10)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Invasive Spotlight: Invasive Plants

The flowers of French broom are attractive, but this invasive plant is not a good choice for landscapes. (Credit: Jack Kelly Clark)

People in urban and suburban areas often use the term “invasive” to describe plants or...

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Posted on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 10:00 PM

Author: Anne Schellman
Contributor: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: california center for urban horticulture (0), economic impacts (0), endangered species (0), garden (0), invasive plants (0), landscape (0), non-native species (0), nursery (0), ornamentals (0), PlantRight (0), retail (0), UC IPM (0), weeds (0), wildfire (0)

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