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Groundhogs and Other Burrowing Rodents
Annually on February 2, groundhogs get a lot of coverage. Groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, are burrowing rodents often found in the eastern United States. But in California, any shadows from burrowing rodents are unlikely to be a groundhog. Here...
Popular Pandemic Pest Notes
Pest Notes are UC IPM publications written for people who want information about pests in homes, office buildings, schools, gardens, urban landscapes, and more. We have more than 170 peer-reviewed Pest Notes on topics ranging from ants to the Zoropsis...
Got Gophers?
![Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/62454small.jpg "Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers]")
Gophers are well-known and certainly unwelcome pests in landscapes, gardens, lawns, and athletic turf. More correctly called pocket gophers, these rodents mostly remain hidden underground in tunnels and feed on plants from below, sometimes pulling whole...
![Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests/blogfiles/62454.jpg)
Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers]
![Characteristic crescent-shaped mound and plugged burrow opening of a pocket gopher. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests/blogfiles/62455.jpg)
Characteristic crescent-shaped mound and plugged burrow opening of a pocket gopher. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]
Summer Pests? Video Solutions!
Summer is all about being outdoors and enjoying camping, swimming, playing, and other activities with family and friends. But it's a real drag when pests such as ants, yellowjackets, or mosquitoes ruin the fun. When you have a pest problem and want to...
Top 20 Pest Notes of 2017
![Larva and adult furniture carpet beetles. [Credit: D-H Choe]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/50653small.jpg "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...
