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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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Posted on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 9:13 AM

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Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: control (12), disease (3), garden (3), heat (2), IPM (9), management (4), pest management (1), Pest Notes (4), pests (3), soil (1), solarization (1), Stapleton (1), UC IPM (18), weeds (4)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management Yard & Garden

Mosquitoes and Warm Weather

The continued warm weather in our area means that mosquitoes are still active. So far this year, 361 cases of the mosquito-borne illness West Nile Virus (WNV) have been reported* in 23 California counties, including Yolo (4 human cases) and Sacramento (1...

West Nile Virus activity, as of 10/20/2017. www.westnile.ca.gov

West Nile Virus activity, as of 10/20/2017. www.westnile.ca.gov

Posted on Friday, October 27, 2017 at 12:23 PM

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Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: breed (1), heat (2), mosquito (4), repellent (1), vector (2), warm (1), weather (1), West Nile Virus (2), WNV (1)