Posts Tagged: lawn

Warmer weather means many pests are flying and joining you indoors while you shelter-in-place or...

Posted on Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 11:00 AM

Tags: bite (18), crane flies (5), eater (2), hawk (3), insects (19), lawn (17), mosquito (20), Pest Notes (119), turfgrass (5), UC IPM (404)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

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]

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

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

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 (15), CDFA (22), chafer (3), green (1), grubs (8), hoplia (2), Japanese (4), June (1), lawn (17), pests (74), UCIPM (88)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

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 (66), Dandelion (3), landscape (66), lawn (17), puffball (1), Roncoroni (3), turf (7), UC IPM (404), weed (17)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Not everyone has a lawn, but if you do, fall is the perfect time to give your lawn some...

Posted on Monday, October 2, 2017 at 10:48 AM