Pest Management & Plant Health

As of July 2021, I joined the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources as a Cooperative Extension Area Citrus IPM Advisor at Lindcove Research and Extension Center. I am very excited in my new role and for the opportunity to serve San Joaquin Valley that grows 75% California citrus.

UC IPM's Urban & Community program has a new newsletter! The Home & Garden Pest Newsletter (which replaces the Retail Nursery & Garden Center IPM News) is designed to help provide California residents with the latest pest information from the University of California.

Each fall my Gravenstein apple gets a small patch of fluffy exudate on the bark at the base of the tree. These are caused by woolly apple aphids, Eriosoma lanigerum. I hose them off with a jet of water which is usually the end of the problem.

It's a given: entomologists collect insects.

o you want to help residents of San Bernardino County garden and landscape more sustainably; grow food in home, school, and community gardens; and improve the health of our communities?

I have called California Home for the past 6 years since starting this position and the past two summers are unlike any I have experienced in the west.

One potato, two potato, three potato...four... Well, make that "one potato bug, two potato bugs, three potato bugs...four." The potato bug, also known as a Jerusalem cricket, seems to be everywhere in the Bay Area after the heavy rains.

Gabriel Zilnik, a researcher at USDA's Agricultural Research Service, in Wapato, Wash. will be the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's next speaker. He'll deliver a virtual seminar on "Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning" at 4:10 p.m.

Postdoctoral scholar Fatemeh Ganjisaffar of the Frank Zalom lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present a virtual seminar on Wednesday, Nov. 10 on "Addressing an Evolving Invasive Species Crisis: Insecticide Resistance Management and Behavioral Control of Drosophila suzukii.

A neighborly project by entomologist Jeff Smith, the volunteer curator of the worldwide Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California Davis, has ended on a sweet note that will benefit the museum.