- Author: Surendra K. Dara
Published on: April 28, 2021
The spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) is an invasive pest in the United States that was first detected in 2014 in Pennsylvania. It is a pest of numerous cultivated and wild hosts. It can cause serious damage to apples,...
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- Author: Surendra K. Dara
Published on: February 12, 2018
Spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) is an invasive planthopper that was first detected in Pennsylvania in September, 2014 (Dara et al., 2015) and believed to have arrived as eggs attached to stone in a shipment of stone from Asia. This...
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Ficus leaf-rolling psyllid, Trioza brevigenae: a new pest of Ficus microcarpa in southern California
- Author: Donald R. Hodel
- Author: Gevork Arakelian
- Author: Linda M. Ohara
- Author: Surendra K. Dara
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Published on: August 9, 2016
Tags: Ficus leaf-rolling psyllid, Ficus microcarpa, FLRP, invasive pest, landscape pest, Trioza brevigenae
Ficus microcarpa, a common ornamental landscape tree (top). Leaf rolling by the ficus leaf-rolling psyllid, Trioza brevigenae (bottom). (Photos by Donald R. Hodel, UCCE)
A psyllid,...
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- Author: Heather Scheck, Santa Barbara Ag Commissioner's Office
- Author: John Chitambar, California Department of Food and Agriculture
- Author: Surendra K. Dara, UCCE
Published on: March 22, 2016
Healthy red apple ice plant, Aptenia cordifolia. Photo by Heather Scheck, Santa Barbara Ag Commissioner's Office
A downy mildew caused by the oomycetous fungus, Peronospora mesembryanthemi Verwoerd has recently been confirmed by...
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- Author: Donald R. Hodel
- Author: James E. Henrich
- Author: Kenneth J. Greby
- Author: Gevork Arakelian
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Published on: February 17, 2016
Erythrina caffra is a spring-flowering landscape tree. (Photo by Don Hodel)
The Erythrina stem borer (ESB) (sometimes known as the Erythrina twig borer) (Terastia meticulosalis), a potentially devastating pest of Erythrina spp....
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