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Winter Pest Prevention in the Home
It's often easier to prevent pests before they become a problem than to try and get rid of them once they infest a home. While some pests can be active year-round, cooler temperatures trigger some pests to find shelter indoors. Creatures such as rats or...
Rats and Mice: How to Manage Using Snap Traps
Trapping is the safest and most effective method for controlling rats and mice in and around homes, garages, and other structures. Rodents that live in close association with humans are called commensal rodents. Rats and mice are the most frequently...
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...
