Pest Management & Plant Health

Happy Halloween! Here are the answers to our haunted horrors posted earlier in the week. If you encounter these, or other pests, you can find management information and resources on our website. 1. If you're growing pumpkins or squash, you may encounter Fusarium crown and foot rot.

The latest information on weed control will be presented at the Weed Management in Agronomic Crops for a Changing Environment online event on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021 from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM (Pacific Time.

POSITION Area IPM Advisor Applied Research and Extension Northern Sacramento Valley (Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, and Tehama counties) POSITION OVERVIEW The University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR), a statewide program with local development and delivery, is seekin...

Who knew? Who knew that you, along with billions of other people, could be infected with undetected microscopic parasitic nematodes, or round worms? And that they spit venom? Parasitologist Adler Dillman of UC Riverside knows. In fact, he recently received a $1.

It's spooky season and we wanted to share a few of our favorite Halloween horror themed pests you may see now, or at other times of the year.

It's that time of year again: termite swarm season! Western subterranean termites, Reticulitermes hesperus (species complex), produce reproductive swarms during calm sunny periods immediately following the first autumn rains.

Root-inhibiting herbicides (like pendimethalin or trifluralin) are soil-applied and pre-plant incorporated as a standard practice for conventional processing tomatoes in the Sacramento Valley.

Winning an Editors' Choice Award was a milestone for an international research team, including UC Davis entomologist Elvira de Lange. De Lange assembled a project team that wrote a research paper on the agricultural use of drones, published last February in the Journal of Economic Entomology (JEE).

A research paper on the agricultural use of drones, co-authored by a four-member international team including UC Davis entomologist Elvira de Lange and published last February in the Journal of Economic Entomology, has won the prestigious 2021 Editors' Choice Award.

He's a giant in his field--a veritable Sequoia in the flatlands. But he's an entomologist with an incredible reach that extends in practically all corners of the insect science world.