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Pests in the Urban Landscape
Dark Rover Ant: Current Status in California
[From the Fall 2018 issue of UC IPM's Green Bulletin newsletter] The dark rover ant (Brachymyrmex...
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Figure 1. Dark rover ant (Credit: Siavash Taravati, UC IPM)
Figure 3. Nine-segmented antenna of dark rover ant (Credit: Alex Wild, Univ. of Texas)
Figure 2. A dark rover ant showing the hidden node on waist, and erect hairs on body. Eyes are relatively large compared to similar species. (Credit: Alex Wild, Univ. of Texas)
Figure 4. Survival (%) of dark rover ants after exposure to several liquid insecticides (a) and bait (b) applications in a laboratory study (6). Products used in this study: a) Termidor SC (fipronil, BASF), Demand CS (lambda-cyhalothrin, Syngenta), Arilon (indoxacarb, Syngenta) b) Maxforce Quantum ant bait (imidacloprid), Intice rover ant bait (sodium tetraborate, Rockwell labs Ltd.), Advion ant gel (indoxacarb, Syngenta) (Miguelena and Baker, 2014).
Updated Landscape Weed Info
![Mallow (cheeseweed). [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/55647small.jpg "Mallow (cheeseweed). [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]")
Controlling weeds can be challenging to landscape professionals or home gardeners since landscapes...
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Mallow (cheeseweed). [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]
![Mallow (cheeseweed). [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests/blogfiles/55647.jpg)
Mallow (cheeseweed). [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]
Sticky mess on plants
Are you seeing cars, sidewalks, driveways, or other plants covered in sticky stuff, especially...
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Feeding by aphids created this sticky honeydew on crape myrtle leaves. (Credit: Belinda Messenger-Sikes)
Pavement sticky with honeydew that dripped from a nearby tree. (Credit: Belinda Messenger-Sikes)
What is a pesticide?
When you hear the term “pesticide,” what comes to mind? Do you understand what...
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Pesticides on shelf. (Credit: Anne Schellman)
Mosquitoes in Garden Centers
This article was written for the UC IPM Retail Nursery and Garden Center News, a publication...
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Culex mosquito larvae. (Credit: Jack Kelly Clark)
Hundreds of mosquito larvae can develop in even small amounts of water. (Credit: Marco Metzger, CDPH)
