
Posts Tagged: UC IPM
Solarizing Soil to Fight Pests

Soil solarization is a method home gardeners and farmers can use to manage soilborne pests such as weeds, disease pathogens, nematodes and insects. Solarization can reduce help reduce pesticides used to control these pests. Soil solarization is simple:...
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Oriental Fruit Fly Quarantine Lifted

Subject: End of the Oriental Fruit Fly Quarantine – Sacramento and Yolo Counties Effective May 28, 2019 the Department is removing the Oriental Fruit Fly quarantine located in Sacramento and Yolo Counties. Maps of any remaining Oriental...
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Ants Attack! Part 2
![Carpenter ant. [Photo courtesy of pestworld.org] Carpenter ant. [Photo courtesy of pestworld.org]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/CCUrbanPests//blogfiles/58249small.jpg)
As written in my blog post from 2 days ago, I found carpenter ants in my house recently and decided to call a pest control company to help manage them. Yesterday, the field representative from the pest control company (both of whom will remain unnamed)...
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Urban Entomology at Bohart Museum this Sunday!

Are you interested in urban entomology? Do you wonder what that bug is you found in your carpet? Or maybe you love ladybird beetles and want to find out more about them. Come learn about and see indoor and outdoor insects this Sunday, November 18 from 1...
Carpet beetles. (Credit: Dong-Hwan Choe, UCR)
UC IPM is Hiring!

The UC Statewide IPM Program, which is a part of the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, is hiring for an Urban IPM Educator. This position is part of the Urban and Community IPM unit. Under the direction of the Associate Director for Urban...
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