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Californians get advice to stop bed bugs

Adult bed bugs are oval, wingless, about 1/5 inch long, and rusty red or mahogany in color. (Credit: Dong-Hwan Choe)

Bed bugs can hitch rides on secondhand furniture, luggage, backpacks and other personal items to invade homes and attack people. While we rest and sleep on sofas and beds, the insects come out to feed. They want to suck our blood. A new web-based,...

Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 2:50 PM

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Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Posted by: Elaine Lander

Tags: bed bugs (19), Kan-Rice (2), online course (2), public health (9), Sutherland (12), training (15), UC IPM (277)

Focus Area Tags: Health, Pest Management

Cockroaches! Updated Pest Notes

Female German cockroach with ootheca. (Credit: DH Choe)

Cockroaches, or roaches, are probably some of the least welcome insects people encounter in their homes, kitchens, offices, restaurants, or landscapes. Indoor cockroaches can create significant public health problems by contaminating food and producing...

Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 2:00 PM

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Tags: building (3), cockroaches (11), control (54), Dong-Hwan Choe (4), indoor pests (6), insects (18), management (42), Michael Rust (2), Pest Notes (94), pests (64), structural (2), Sutherland (12), UC IPM (277)

Focus Area Tags: Health, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Outdoor Baiting for Cockroaches

Figure 3. Turkestan cockroaches attracted to spilled food. (Credit: A Sutherland)

Two species of Blatta cockroaches can be common peridomestic pests in California, including the familiar oriental cockroach (B. orientalis) and a relative newcomer, the Turkestan cockroach (B. lateralis, Figure 1). Adults of both species are large...

Posted on Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 7:59 PM

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Author: Andrew Sutherland
Posted by: Elaine Lander

Tags: bait (5), cockroaches (11), pest (105), pest management (66), pest management professionals (5), public health (9), school (3), Sutherland (12), trapping (5), traps (8), UC IPM (277)

Focus Area Tags: Health, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

New! Pocket-Sized Guide for Vegetable Pests

While working outside, gardeners and farmers may discover pest problems they need to answer quickly. To meet this need, the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources has recently published the Vegetable Pest Identification...

Posted on Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 11:00 PM

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Tags: backyard (2), crops (1), farms (1), Flint (4), fruit (8), garden (41), melon (1), pest (105), pest management (66), pocket-sized (1), sustainable (1), Sutherland (12), UC IPM (277), vegetable (2), Windbiel-Rojas (13)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Do-It-Yourself Bed Bug Control?

Fig 1. Adult and nymph bed bugs. (D.-H. Choe)

[From the Summer issue of the UC IPM Retail Nursery & Garden Center News] Don't let the bed bugs bite? That's easier said than done, it seems. Bed bugs (Figure 1) continue to be important household pests globally, driving a growing sector of the...

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4b. Mattress encasement label. (B. Messenger-Sikes)

Posted on Friday, September 22, 2017 at 10:33 AM

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Author: Andrew Mason Sutherland

Tags: bed bugs (19), bug bomb (1), control (54), infestation (7), insecticides (4), interceptor (1), mattress encasements (1), monitor (5), pesticide (24), pests (64), Sutherland (12), UC IPM (277)

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