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Reduce Soil Pests with Sunlight

Clear plastic is laid over planting beds to elevate soil temperatures. (Credit: K Windbiel-Rojas)

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...

Posted on Monday, June 3, 2019 at 9:38 AM

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Tags: control (41), disease (34), garden (30), heat (1), IPM (58), management (30), pest management (27), Pest Notes (69), pests (57), soil (3), solarization (2), Stapleton (2), UC IPM (209), weeds (22)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Pest Management Yard & Garden

Gnats on Houseplants

Fungus gnat adult caught in yellow sticky trap. (Jack Kelly Clark)

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...

Posted on Monday, October 9, 2017 at 9:55 AM

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Tags: flies (3), fungus gnat (2), houseplant (1), indoor (1), potting mix (1), soil (3), UC IPM (209)

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...

Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 11:18 PM

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Author: Brad Hanson

Tags: control (41), longevity (1), seed (1), soil (3), weed (11)