UC Delivers
UC Delivers is a collection of examples showing how ANR is making a difference for Californians.
Pest Management - Return
2019
- UC ANR Helps Major Agricultural Tourism Destination
- UC researchers discover cost-saving response to pathogens in restoration sites
2018
- IPM program helps North Coast growers in fight against Virginia Creeper Leafhopper
- Los Angeles State Historic Park Gets Savvy About IPM
- UCCE eJournals help growers manage pests in agricultural and urban landscapes
- UCCE research and extension improves returns for strawberry and vegetable farmers
2017
- City of Irvine adopts new Integrated Pest Management policy solving pest problems while minimizing risks to people and the environment.
- Improved management of Lygus bugs has reduced unnecessary insecticide applications reducing risk to crops and the environment
- Training public housing staff about Integrated Pest Management in Southern California
- UC ANR teamed up to investigate effective integrated pest management for bed bugs in low-income, multiple-occupancy housing
- UC IPM coordinates a statewide conversation about the role of chlorpyrifos
- UC IPM delivers IPM solutions to Californians
2016
- Integrated Pest Management strategies to reduce chemical pesticides in strawberry
- UC Scientists collaborate to eradicate European grapevine moth from California
2015
- Bagrada bug outreach
- First UC app for integrated pest management outreach
- Protecting organic celery production
- Thousand cankers disease research increases awareness and solutions for walnut industry
- UCCE solutions for invasive pest problem on popular landscape plant
2014
- Cooperative Extension Teams with Strawberry Industry to Identify New Disease Developments
- Educating public workers about aquatic invasive pests
- New problems on parsley studied by UC researchers
- San Joaquin Valley grape growers reduce fungicide sprays
- UCCE and UC Master Gardeners Bring Horticultural Therapy Program to a Girls' Rehabilitation Facility in San Diego County
2013
- Bringing integrated pest management to schools
- Economic study helped determine growers' compensation for vineyard losses
2012
2011
- Pest Management Alliances lead to IPM adoption
- Biological frost control strategies reduce crop damage
- Converting urban yard waste to avocado root rot management
- Creating a management system for spotted wing drosophila in caneberries and strawberries
- New invasions of eye gnats in Southern California
- UC 'Organically Grown' Help
- UC a leader in the fight against Sudden Oak Death
- UC biotechnology website helps the public understand GMOs
- UCCE helps bromeliad growers comply with regulations
2010
- Citrus thrips management programs developed for blueberries
- Control programs established for exotic pistachio pest
- Hot water can prevent spread of vine mealybug by grape nurseries
- Increasing nut crop acreage expands need for integrated pest management training
- Making avocado crops profitable in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties
- Pesticide drift exposure declines in Kern County
- Research on new celery virus identifies control measures
2009
- Bay Friendly Water Walks Teach Public to Conserve
- Directing Farmers to Success
- Interactive kiosk helps the public deal with ground squirrels
- Trap Cropping for Management of Root-knot Nematode by Home Gardeners
- UC research finds 7 more plant families that host cucurbit disease
- Vegetable growers helped with damaging thrips-vectored viruses
- Water quality courses assist California's ethnic Chinese growers
2008
- Inmates dig their way to new careers in horticulture
- Nature of a beet cyst nematode population suppression unraveled
- Redberry mite management in blackberries
- UC IPM guidelines for strawberries in Spanish
- UC studies improve the efficiency of weed control in broccoli production
2007
- Central Coast Vineyard Floor Management Practices and Economics
- Choosing a landscape company with environmentally sound practices
- Controlling medusahead with intensive grazing
- Innovative Almond Pest Control Reduces Toxic Pesticide Use and Improves Environment
- Long-term work yields avocados resistant to disease
- Management practices to conserve water and reduce off-site movement of sediment and pesticides in drainage waters
- New weed control strategies in strawberry are effective
- Organic olive production short course and manual
- Research provides stable fly monitoring and control tools
- Researchers find wasp can control spotted gum psyllid
- Self-Help Kiosks Used to Extend IPM Information to Gardeners
- UC studies overhead center-pivot irrigation in no-tillage systems
- UCCE Helps Growers of Ornamental Eucalyptus Ravaged by an Invasive Pest
2006
- Minor Vegetable Crops on the Coast Supported by Cooperative Extension
- Monterey County Lab To Assist in Biosecurity Efforts
- Resistance to Rodenticide Found in Meadow Voles in Artichoke Fields
- Staying Afloat with Nontoxic Antifouling Strategies for Boats
- Teamwork Controls Major Pest in Avocado
2005
2004
- Protecting the Environment and Human Health Through Worker Training
- Study Manual Series for Commercial and Private Pesticide Applicators
- Training Health Care Providers Helps Protect Farmworkers from Pesticides
2003
- A Field Key to Lygus Species of the San Joaquin Valley
- Assistance to Southeast Asian Strawberry Growers
- Automated Trap Gives Reliable Pest Counts
- Biological Control Offers Control of Eucalyptus Pest
- Biological Control Research Helps Address New Avocado Pests
- Citrus Program Protects Health of State's Trees
- Conservation of Biological Control Posterchild, Cottony Cushion Scale
- Controlling Invasive and Noxious Weeds Through a Weed Management Area
- Cotton Host Plant Resistance To Silverleaf Whitefly Is Discovered
- Helping Clinical Laboratories Standardize Farmworker Tests
- High-Pressure Washer Removes Red Scale for Citrus Fruits
- Insecticide Choice for Alfalfa May Protect Water Quality
- IPM Programs for Celery, Tomatoes Aid Growers, Public
- Management of California Red Scale , #1 Pest of Citrus in the San Joaquin Valley
- Management of Forage Quality In Strip-Cut Alfalfa
- Master Gardeners Protect the Environment
- Mite devastating date crop is foiled
- Monitoring Insecticide Resistance of California Red Scale
- More Efficient Mating Disruption Reduces Insecticide Use, Saves Costs
- More Efficient Mosquito Control
- Mulches Used to Control Avocado, Citrus Root Rot
- Nematode management techniques
- Nematologist Works on Resistant Grape Rootstocks
- New Bait Technology Controls Ants in Urban, Agricultural Environments
- New Developments in Melon Powdery Mildew Management
- New Virus Disease in Melons and Squash Is Identified and Described
- Organic Apple Industry in California
- Outbreak of new disease affects almond orchards statewide
- Pest Control Advisor Advanced Training
- Pheromone Mating Disruption Reduces Insecticides in Peaches
- Proper weed identification is essential for control
- Reducing environmental impacts of foothill citrus orchards
- UC research identifies new emerging soilborne diseases of strawberry