Pest Management & Plant Health

To raise awareness of pesticide safety practices, February is celebrated as National Safety Education Month. This year the University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program offers help to refresh your knowledge about safe and effective pesticide use.

If you grow citrus, you've no doubt heard of the invasive pest, Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri. ACP they call it. A native of southern Asia, it was first detected it in the United States (Florida) in 1998.

Would you like to make a financial contribution to support the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day? A UC Davis Crowdfunding Project is underway until 11:59 p.m., Feb. 28, with a set goal of $5000. Contributions from $5 on up are welcome.

Research molecular biologist Michelle Heck of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) in Ithaca, N.Y.

If you missed the Managing Weeds in Grasslands and Rangelands 2021 online event (Oct. 19, 2021 9 AM-12 noon PST), you're in luck. We have the recordings of each presentation here.

TUNE IN LIVE to The IPM Hour on Wed., February 9, 2022 at noon Pacific.

If you missed our planting and pruning Bare Root Fruit Trees Class, you can watch the recording on our UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardener YouTube Channel. The class includes information on deciduous fruit trees, including apple, pear, cherry, nectarine, peach, plum, and apricot.

An all-star lineup of tree pest experts from UC Cooperative Extension and other organizations will speak about Pests & Diseases of Southern California Trees at the Winter 2022 Street Tree Seminar. Offered online through Zoom, the seminar takes place Thursday, February 24 from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm.

Groundhogs are infamous for announcing the arrival of spring for folks in the eastern part of the United States. Groundhogs hibernate, so if Punxsatawney Phil pops up out of his den and sees his shadow today, it's said there will be six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't, spring comes early.

Medical entomologist Thomas W. Scott, a UC Davis distinguished professor who retired in 2015 but continues his scientific research, has been named one of the world's Highly Cited Researchers for the third consecutive year. Professor Scott, who now resides in Luck, Wis.