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Spring Cleaning for Pest Prevention

A clothes moth larva with its feeding case attached. (Credit: DH Choe)

Spring has arrived and with many Californians at home due to local coronavirus directives, now could be an opportune time for some spring cleaning. This annual ritual also has the benefit of preventing and reducing indoor pests. Cleaning and...

Posted on Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 8:00 AM

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Author: Elaine Lander

Tags: ants (17), carpet beetles (5), clothes moths (6), clutter (4), cockroaches (10), fleas (2), mice (9), pantry (8), pest management (62), prevention (13), raccoons (4), rats (14), rodents (9), sanitation (6), spiders (6), storage (4), UCIPM (72)

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

Answers: It's a Trap!

Pheramone trap for Indian meal moths (Credit: CA Reynolds)

Here are the answers to the traps pictured in yesterday's blog post. How did you do? Let us know in the comments section. As long as you use integrated pest management when seeking to fend off your pest enemies, you can be assured that...

Posted on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 3:00 PM

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Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: Asian citrus psyllid (31), clothes moths (6), ground squirrel (7), IPM (63), management (42), pest (102), pest management (62), Pest Notes (92), pests (63), traps (8), tree squirrel (7), UC IPM (268), Windbiel-Rojas (12), yellowjackets (7)

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

Top 20 Pest Notes of 2017

Larva and adult furniture carpet beetles. [Credit: D-H Choe]

Pests have popularity contests too. We recently looked at how many visits our popular Pest Notes publication series received in 2017. If you aren't familiar, the UC IPM Pest Notes series are science-based publications written and reviewed by experts on...

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

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Author: Anne Schellman
Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: aphids (10), bark (3), bed bugs (18), carpet beetles (5), clothes moths (6), fire blight (2), fungus gnats (2), gophers (6), hives (1), honey bee swarms (2), leaffooted (4), management (42), peach leaf curl (7), Pest Notes (92), rats (14), scale (2), soil solarization (1), spider mites (2), squirrels (1), thrips (5), UC IPM (268), widow spiders (1)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Controlling Clothes Moths

Webbing clothes moth. (Photo credit: Clemson University, USDA Cooperative Extension Slide Series, Bugwood. org)

Spotting a small moth fluttering around your closet then discovering damaged fabric or other items can be shocking. Upon further inspection, you may even see the silken webs spun by the larvae, or the droppings they leave behind. Clothes moth larvae...

Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 9:05 AM

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Tags: bedroom (1), clothes moths (6), clothing (1), fabric (2), feathers (1), fur (2), indoor pests (5), larvae (3), moth (3), Pest Notes (92), UC IPM (268), webbing (2)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Reduce Clutter to Reduce Pests

Female German cockroach with egg case. [J.K. Clark]

Most of us have clutter we've hidden away in closets, drawers, garages, or in other storage space. Although you may not have the time or energy to go through these excess “stuff” and cluttered areas, we have an incentive for you: pest...

This cluttered garage has many hiding spaces for pests. [A. Schellman]

Cluttered garage has many hiding spaces for pests. [A. Schellman]

Posted on Monday, May 22, 2017 at 9:38 AM

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Tags: bed bugs (18), clothes moths (6), clutter (4), cockroaches (10), mice (9), pantry (8), pests (63), rats (14), rodents (9), sanitation (6), spiders (6), storage (4), UC IPM (268)

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