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Posts Tagged: rodent

Rats and Mice: How to Manage Using Snap Traps

Trapping is the safest and most effective method for controlling rats and mice in and around homes,...

Posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 3:00 PM
Tags: house mouse (5), management (73), mice (13), Niamh Quinn (4), pest management (164), Quinn (17), rats (20), rodent (14), rodents (12), trapping (6), traps (10), UC IPM (404)
Focus Area Tags: Health, 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

Ground Squirrels: Furry Foes

  Although they're small, cute, and furry, ground squirrels can be a real pest for California...

Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 8:48 PM
Tags: Baldwin (6), control (66), Dimson (2), disease (54), garden (68), ground squirrel (9), landscape (66), management (73), pest (210), Pest Notes (119), public health (16), Quinn (17), rodent (14), UC IPM (404)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Investigating the Pathways of Rodenticide Movement in Urban Wildlife

Rodenticides continue to come under scrutiny in California due to issues surrounding the potential...

Posted on Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 9:00 PM
Tags: bait (9), exposure (5), nontarget injury (1), pests (74), public health (16), rodent (14), rodenticide (8), UC IPM (404), Wildlife - General (1)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

West Coast Rodent Academy Trains Pest Management Professionals

[From the May 2017 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] The West Coast Rodent Academy (WCRA) is a...

West Coast Rodent Academy Workgroup [K. Willingham]
West Coast Rodent Academy Workgroup [K. Willingham]

West Coast Rodent Academy Workgroup [K. Willingham]

Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 9:44 AM

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