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Managing Invasive Shot Hole Borers in Southern California

[Originally published in the Fall 2018 issue of the Green Bulletin. Modified slightly from original.] Invasive wood-boring beetles are attacking hundreds of thousands of trees in southern California, including commercial avocados, and trees within urban...

Invasive Shot Hole Borers Threatening Trees in Southern California

[From the December 2016 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] The Polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) (Fig. 1) and Kuroshio shot hole borer (KSHB) are invasive wood-boring beetles that attack dozens of tree species in Southern California, including...