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Urban and Community Integrated Pest Management
Posts Tagged: soil
Reduce Soil Pests with Sunlight

Soil solarization is a method home gardeners and farmers can use to manage soilborne pests such as weeds, disease pathogens, nematodes and insects. Solarization can reduce help reduce pesticides used to control these pests. Soil solarization is...
Gnats on Houseplants

If you have house or office plants and have ever seen small, dark-colored insect swarming around them, your plants could have fungus gnats. Fungus gnats are tiny flies that as adults, resemble mosquitoes. Fungus gnats don't bite people, but their...
Weed Seeds and Their Longevity

A repost and link to a recent Weed Science Society of America press release entitled: "About Weed Seeds and Their Longevity" Click the link to go to the full article. An excerpt from the press release and links to the free...