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Californians get advice to stop bed bugs

Adult bed bugs are oval, wingless, about 1/5 inch long, and rusty red or mahogany in color. (Credit: Dong-Hwan Choe)

Bed bugs can hitch rides on secondhand furniture, luggage, backpacks and other personal items to invade homes and attack people. While we rest and sleep on sofas and beds, the insects come out to feed. They want to suck our blood. A new web-based,...

Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 2:50 PM

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Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Posted by: Elaine Lander

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Focus Area Tags: Health, Pest Management

You can help prevent a deadly disease from destroying California's citrus

There is no known treatment for huanglongbing, which kills citrus trees.

The incurable citrus tree disease huanglongbing, or HLB, has been detected in Los Angeles and Orange counties and most recently in Riverside. The citrus disease is spread from tree to tree by Asian citrus psyllids, the insects that...

Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 8:15 AM

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Author: Pamela Kan-Rice

Tags: asian citrus pysllid (0), citrus (0), disease (0), Grafton-Cardwell (0), greening (0), HLB (0), huanglongbing (0), Kan-Rice (0), Riverside (0)

Retiring entomologist will be missed

He built a villa for termites, delighted school children with giant cockroaches, did “time” at San Quentin State Prison, traveled the world looking at insects and, in 2016, Vernard Lewis was inducted into the Pest Management...

Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at 5:08 PM

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Author: Pamela Kan-Rice

Tags: bed bugs (0), cockroaches (0), Pam Kan-Rice (0), termites (0), UCANR News (0), Vernard Lewis (0)

New Video from UC IPM on Pantry Pests!

If you have insects invading your kitchen or pantry, or if you've ever opened stored food products and discovered pests inside, you'll want to watch this new video from UC IPM. It describes several types of pantry pests, foods they are attracted to,...

Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 9:33 AM

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