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Sticky mess on plants

Feeding by aphids created this sticky honeydew on crape myrtle leaves. (Credit: Belinda Messenger-Sikes)

Are you seeing cars, sidewalks, driveways, or other plants covered in sticky stuff, especially those under trees? This sticky substance, called honeydew, is produced by certain insects that excrete it when they feed on plants. Plant leaves look shiny and...

Posted on Monday, September 24, 2018 at 3:06 PM

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Tags: ants (13), aphids (9), Asian citrus (1), car (1), dripping (1), honeydew (7), huanglongbing (35), leafhoppers (2), mealybugs (4), psyllids (2), scale (2), sooty mold (4), sticky (2), UC IPM (217), whiteflies (5)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management Yard & Garden

Top 20 Pest Notes of 2017

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...

Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 4:31 PM

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Author: Anne Schellman
Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: aphids (9), bark (3), bed bugs (18), carpet beetles (2), clothes moths (5), fire blight (2), fungus gnats (2), gophers (5), hives (1), honey bee swarms (1), leaffooted (4), management (34), peach leaf curl (6), Pest Notes (72), rats (10), scale (2), soil solarization (1), spider mites (2), squirrels (1), thrips (4), UC IPM (217), widow spiders (1)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management Yard & Garden