Pest Management & Plant Health

I have been monitoring conifer mortality in Mendocino, Lake, Napa, and Sonoma Counties for the past year.

Melody Kendall One definition for a weed is a plant that is growing where you don't want it. Typically, weeds get a bad rap. These plants are very efficient and perfectly comfortable in their favored locations with their heightened water absorption and seed dispersal abilities.

Ready to learn about mammoth wasps, medflies, nematodes and pesticide risks to polilnators, or delve into such topics as "Mystery of the Missing Microbes: Why Do Bees Keep Losing Their Symbionts?

The 31st Annual UCR Urban Pest Management Conference was held at UCR HUB (Highlander Union Building) Conference rooms on March 22, 2022. We had over 120 participants from urban pest management industry, state agencies, chemical manufacture, and other educational / research institutes.

June is bustin' out all over All over the meadow and the hill Buds 're bustin' outa bushes And the rompin' river pushes Ev'ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill --Rodgers and Hammerstein Just remove "June" and replace it with "Spring.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Health Division's Integrated Pest Control Branch is recruiting to fill an Associate Governmental Program Analyst in its Sacramento office.

The UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardeners are excited to bring you our very first class about citrus! We are holding this class on Zoom so we can record it and post it to our YouTube Channel. Citrus trees are one of the most popular fruit trees grown in California.

The list of spring quarter seminars hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology has been announced by coordinator Shahid Siddique, assistant professor of nematology. The seminars will take place at 4:10 p.m. on Wednesdays, beginning March 30 and continuing through June 1.

Expanded from four chapters in the previous edition to 12, the third edition of Pesticide Safety: A Study Manual for Private Applicators aims to be more than just a study guide.

Nematodes! The display of nematodes (aka "roundworms") at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Center, drew scores of curious visitors. Many were dog owners with an interest in heartworms.