Posts Tagged: pest management professionals

Healthy Schools Act Report: Your Feedback is Needed!

Do you work at or service a school or multiple schools? If so, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is seeking your input about the Healthy Schools Act. Feedback from stakeholders—school district staff, child care providers,...

Outdoor Baiting for Cockroaches

Two species of Blatta cockroaches can be common peridomestic pests in California, including the familiar oriental cockroach (B. orientalis) and a relative newcomer, the Turkestan cockroach (B. lateralis, Figure 1).  Adults of both species are large...

Using Seaweed to Kill Argentine Ants

[From the Spring issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] Argentine ants can be a damaging ant pest species in both agricultural and urban environments in California. Outdoors, they disrupt biological control by tending honeydew-producing pests and...

West Coast Rodent Academy Trains Pest Management Professionals

[From the May 2017 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] The West Coast Rodent Academy (WCRA) is a three-day intensive educational workshop hosted by University of California Cooperative Extension in association with the Pest Control Operators of...

West Coast Rodent Academy Workgroup [K. Willingham]

West Coast Rodent Academy Workgroup [K. Willingham]

Bed Bug Management Challenges

[From the December 2015 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] Survey of professional bed bug management in multi-unit housing Bed bug management is especially challenging in multi-unit housing (MUH) situations such as public and low-income apartment...