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Got Gophers?

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]

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]

Characteristic crescent-shaped mound and plugged burrow opening of a pocket gopher. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]

Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 8:58 PM

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Tags: Baldwin (4), damage (14), eating (1), garden (31), gophers (5), landscape (35), lawn (7), mound (2), Pest Notes (72), pests (58), pocket gophers (1), rodent (6), turf (5), UC IPM (217), vegetables (3)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management Yard & Garden

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...

Posted on Sunday, August 5, 2018 at 10:00 PM

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Tags: ants (13), gophers (5), mosquitoes (8), pest problem (1), summertime (1), UC IPM (217), yellowjackets (4)

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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 (9), bark (3), bed bugs (18), carpet beetles (2), clothes moths (5), fire blight (2), fungus gnats (2), gophers (5), hives (1), honey bee swarms (1), leaffooted (4), management (34), peach leaf curl (6), Pest Notes (72), rats (10), scale (2), soil solarization (1), spider mites (2), squirrels (1), thrips (4), UC IPM (217), widow spiders (1)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management Yard & Garden

Gophers in Your Garden? Try the Gophinator!

If you have gophers eating plants in your garden or landscape, you'll want to watch this brand new video about the Gophinator trap from UC IPM. The Gophinator is a highly successful method for catching gophers. The video has easy-to-follow instructions...

Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 5:47 PM

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Tags: control (45), gophers (5), gophinator (1), manage (2), trap (1), UC IPM (217)

Top 10 Garden and Landscape Pests

Download the free booklet at the bottom of the page! 1. Ants Most people deal with ants around their home at some point. Because most ants live outdoors, focus efforts on keeping ants from entering buildings by caulking entryways. Follow good...

Posted on Friday, July 8, 2016 at 12:09 PM

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