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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

• UC and IR-4 support California's fresh produce
• UC works to protect spinach from downy mildew

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

• Monitoring and Control Measures for Pierce’s Disease in Kern County

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