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Posts Tagged: termites
Swarms Visit the UC IPM Booth
Last Saturday, UC IPM staff greeted a swarm of visitors at their Picnic Day booth. Picnic Day, UC...
UC Riverside Fumigation School
The Urban Entomology Program at the University of California, Riverside and AgriTurf Distributing...
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Fumigation Tent.
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Retiring entomologist will be missed
He built a villa for termites, delighted school children with giant cockroaches, did...
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Vernard Lewis.
"Villa Termiti is still unique," said Vernard Lewis, shown standing in front of the structure he built to test termite management methods. "Who does that?" Build a building for infesting with bugs?"
Built at the UC Richmond Field Station in 1993, the 400-square-foot Villa Termiti has been fumigated, x-rayed and featured on the cover of Popular Mechanics.
Lewis, left, and Mike Haverty stand next to a termite mound in Kakadu National Park in Northern Australia.
Adult Madagascar hissing cockroach.
Lewis, right, describes his termite research to UC ANR colleagues Robin Meadows and Evett Kilmartin.
No "Ivory Tower" for Lewis, shown crawling out from under a house after inspecting for termites.
It's Termite Awareness Week!
![Reproductives of dampwood, drywood and subterranean termites (L-R). [R. Tabuchi]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/35186small.jpg "Reproductives of dampwood, drywood and subterranean termites (L-R). [R. Tabuchi]")
Termite Awareness Week (March 16-22) is a campaign created by the National Pest Management...
Sighting swarming termites?
After the subterranean termite, the western drywood termite, Incisitermes minor, is California's...
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Western drywood termites.
