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Rat Management in School and Community Gardens
It is important for food-safety reasons to manage rats in school and community gardens. Rats and other wildlife can carry a number of diseases that can be deposited in the form of urine and feces on fruit, vegetables, and in the soil. Rats can also...
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...
Rodenticides: Use, Issues, and Nontarget Exposure
[From the Winter 2017 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] Rodenticides are essential tools in the IPM toolbox for rodent management. Exclusion and cultural practices, such as landscape management and sanitation, are also very important tools that...
Reduce Clutter to Reduce Pests
![Female German cockroach with egg case. [J.K. Clark]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/43940small.jpg "Female German cockroach with egg case. [J.K. Clark]")
Most of us have clutter we've hidden away in closets, drawers, garages, or in other storage space. Although you may not have the time or energy to go through these excess “stuff” and cluttered areas, we have an incentive for you: pest...
![This cluttered garage has many hiding spaces for pests. [A. Schellman]](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests/blogfiles/43939.jpg)
This cluttered garage has many hiding spaces for pests. [A. Schellman]
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...
