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Insect Pests on Citrus Trees

[This post has been modified from the article originally published in the Fall 2018 issue of the...

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Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 7:30 AM

Author: Elizabeth E Grafton-Cardwell

Tags: ants (0), Asian citrus psylld (0), biological control (0), citrus (0), citrus leafminer (0), cottony cushion scale (0), Grafton-Cardwell (0), mealybugs (0), pest (0), pest management (0), UC IPM (0)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Food, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Sticky mess on plants

Are you seeing cars, sidewalks, driveways, or other plants covered in sticky stuff, especially...

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Posted on Monday, September 24, 2018 at 3:06 PM

Tags: ants (20), aphids (14), Asian citrus (1), car (1), dripping (1), honeydew (8), huanglongbing (36), leafhoppers (2), mealybugs (7), psyllids (2), scale (2), sooty mold (5), sticky (2), UC IPM (437), whiteflies (7)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Top 20 Pest Notes of 2017

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

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Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 4:31 PM

Author: Anne Schellman
Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: aphids (14), bark (3), bed bugs (21), carpet beetles (8), clothes moths (7), fire blight (3), fungus gnats (3), gophers (9), hives (1), honey bee swarms (2), leaffooted (4), management (73), peach leaf curl (11), Pest Notes (121), rats (21), scale (2), soil solarization (1), spider mites (2), squirrels (2), thrips (6), UC IPM (437), widow spiders (1)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

What's that Sticky Stuff on my Car?

It's hot outside, so like a lot of people, you try to park your car under a tree in parking lots...

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Posted on Monday, September 11, 2017 at 9:40 AM

Tags: citricola scale (0), honeydew (0), pest (0), sooty mold (0), trees (0), UC IPM (0), woolly hackberry aphid (0)

New Mealybugs Pest Note!

Have you ever had an infestation of mealybugs on your houseplants or outside on your landscape...

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Posted on Friday, March 11, 2016 at 1:36 PM

Tags: aphids (0), cottony cushion scale (0), honeydew (0), mary louise flint (0), mealybugs (0), sooty mold (0), UCIPM (0), whiteflies (0)

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