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Pests in the Urban Landscape

What Made That Mound - a Gopher or a Mole?

Finding freshly dug mounds of soil in the garden, lawn, or landscape might be a sign of gophers or...

Posted on Monday, March 5, 2018 at 2:43 PM
Tags: control (66), damage (19), gopher (3), integrated pest management (44), mole (2), monitoring (5), mound (2), Pest Notes (119), UC IPM (404)

Top 20 Pest Notes of 2017

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

Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 4:31 PM
Tags: aphids (14), bark (3), bed bugs (20), carpet beetles (8), clothes moths (7), fire blight (3), fungus gnats (3), gophers (8), hives (1), honey bee swarms (2), leaffooted (4), management (73), peach leaf curl (11), Pest Notes (119), rats (20), scale (2), soil solarization (1), spider mites (2), squirrels (2), thrips (6), UC IPM (404), widow spiders (1)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Controlling Clothes Moths

Spotting a small moth fluttering around your closet then discovering damaged fabric or other items...

Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 9:05 AM
Tags: bedroom (1), clothes moths (7), clothing (1), fabric (2), feathers (1), fur (2), indoor pests (8), larvae (3), moth (3), Pest Notes (119), UC IPM (404), webbing (2)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Kissing bugs are not your valentine

Conenose or ‘kissing bugs' (Triatoma spp.) are in the Reduviidae family, a group of insects...

Posted on Monday, February 12, 2018 at 9:11 AM
Tags: bites (6), bugs (5), Chagas disease (2), conenose (2), kissing (1), reduviidae (1), UC IPM (404), Windbiel-Rojas (15)

Poison Oak: Not Just a Summer Problem

Campers and hikers are often warned to avoid poison oak in summer by looking out for green plants...

Colorful display of poison oak. (Credit: Anne McTavish)
Colorful display of poison oak. (Credit: Anne McTavish)

Colorful display of poison oak in fall. (Credit: Anne McTavish)

Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 9:03 AM
Tags: allergens (1), campers (1), fall (2), hikers (1), identification (10), poison oak (6), rash (1), smoke inhalation (1), UC IPM (404)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

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