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Healthy Soil Tips

Healthy Soils Week (Dec. 4-8) is a week-long initiative by the California Department of Food and...

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Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 2:41 PM

Author: Lauren Fordyce

Tags: CDFA (30), HealthySoilsWeek2023 (1), IPM (202), pest (255), pest management (209), plant health (1), soil (5), UC IPM (454)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Reduce Soil Pests with Sunlight

Soil solarization is a method home gardeners and farmers can use to manage soilborne pests such as...

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Posted on Monday, June 3, 2019 at 12:00 PM

Tags: control (68), disease (56), garden (93), heat (1), IPM (202), management (75), pest management (209), Pest Notes (122), pests (88), soil (5), solarization (2), Stapleton (2), UC IPM (454), weeds (44)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, 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 (0), bark (0), bed bugs (0), carpet beetles (0), clothes moths (0), fire blight (0), fungus gnats (0), gophers (0), hives (0), honey bee swarms (0), leaffooted (0), management (0), peach leaf curl (0), Pest Notes (0), rats (0), scale (0), soil solarization (0), spider mites (0), squirrels (0), thrips (0), UC IPM (0), widow spiders (0)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Gnats on Houseplants

If you have house or office plants and have ever seen small, dark-colored insect swarming around...

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Posted on Monday, October 9, 2017 at 9:55 AM

Tags: flies (6), fungus gnat (5), houseplant (6), indoor (3), potting mix (1), soil (5), UC IPM (454)

Weed Seeds and Their Longevity

A repost and link to a recent Weed Science Society of America press release entitled: "About...

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Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 11:18 PM

Author: Brad Hanson

Tags: control (68), longevity (1), seed (2), soil (5), weed (18)

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