Pest Management & Plant Health

The Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of California, Davis, is in the news today, and what wonderful, exciting news! Jason Bond, UC Davis professor of entomology and the Evert and Marion Schlinger endowed chair in insect systematics is a newly selected co-editor-in-chief of t...

Jason Bond, professor of entomology and the Evert and Marion Schlinger endowed chair in insect systematics, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and Hojun Song, an associate professor of entomology at Texas A&M University, are the newly selected co-editors-in-chief of the journal Insect...

We are pleased to announce our new YouTube playlist for the Urban & Community IPM Webinars.

Richard Smith is the University of California Cooperative Extension Monterey County Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Farm Advisor. He also covers Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. Weeds are an important host of Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus (INSV) in the Salinas Valley.

If you're near the University of California, Davis campus on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 13, and concerned about the future of the food system and agroecology--sustainable farming that works with nature--you won't want to miss this lecture.

Written By--Petr Kosina, UC Statewide IPM Program A brand-new online course on Diagnosing Herbicide Injury focusing on how an herbicide injury situation can arise, what information can help diagnose symptoms during field investigations, and what tools are available to you, is now available from the...

(Editor's Note: Watch Josh Cassidy's Deep Look award-winning video on YouTube.

Now is the time for planting cool-season vegetables like broccoli, carrots, and spinach. We are pleased to share new pest management resources for other cool season vegetables including beets, chard, radishes or turnips.

Larvae of the western grapeleaf skeletonizer feeding on a grape leaf. (Photo by Surendra Dara) The western grapeleaf skeletonizer (WGLS), Harrisina metallica, is a pest of vineyards in some parts of California.

Our research on Argentine ant IPM was published in August 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Entomology (JEE). Choe, D.-H., J.-W. Tay, K. Campbell, H. Park, L. Greenberg, and M. K. Rust. 2021.