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Urban and Community Integrated Pest Management
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Got Gophers?
![Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers] Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/62454small.jpg)
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]
Characteristic crescent-shaped mound and plugged burrow opening of a pocket gopher. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]