Pest Management & Plant Health

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Hand tool for removing tap rooted plants
The Backyard Gardener: Article

It's Time to Get out the Hoe!

June 16, 2021
Even in the best managed gardens, as soon as the soil warms up weed erupt and need to be controlled before they get the upper hand.
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Weed Management for Small Acreage Workshop presentations
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Presentations from Weed Management for Small Acreages workshop

June 13, 2021
By Devii R Rao
From the Livestock and Range blog Did you miss the Weed Management for Small Acreage Workshop? Don't worry! Here's the link to all the presentations: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLjlfxpbNglYGn38KY94aoo6z3pLjo7E4.
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Adult insect with pinkish wings that have black patterning and dots resting on bark.
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Invasive Species Action Week 2021

June 6, 2021
California Invasive Species Action Week began Saturday, June 5 and runs through Sunday, June 13, 2021. Increasing public awareness of invasive species and their impacts helps protect our natural resources, waterways, native species, agriculture, and health.
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Juan Amado “Ado” Sales of the Shahid Siddique lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has received a coveted summer fellowship from the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health.
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Ado Sales of Siddique Nematology Lab Receives URC-IIFH Fellowship

May 26, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC Davis undergraduate student Juan Amado Ado Sales, a member of the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology and a laboratory assistant for nematologist Shahid Siddique, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has just been awarded a coveted summer fellowship from the UC Davis Innovati...
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Chicken with stick tight fleas on the face.
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Pests of Backyard Poultry

May 25, 2021
Backyard chickens are increasingly being raised as pets, for egg production, and for youth development and science projects. While raising chickens can be an interesting and economically beneficial activity, chickens and other fowl may also have pest problems.
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In this image, taken in October 2018, consultant and mentor Vernard Lewis (left), confers with Andrew Sutherland, UC integrated pest management advisor for Bay Area counties, about the Villa Termiti at the UC Berkeley Field Station. Sutherland, who holds a doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, was recently awarded state funding to remodel the Villa for future training of pest management professionals in the state. (UC ANR Photo by Pam Kan-Rice)
Bug Squad: Article

Bravo to Vernard Lewis and Margaret Collins: Two Legendary Entomologists

May 24, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Congratulations to emeritus Cooperative Extension specialist Vernard Lewis of UC Berkeley, selected to deliver the Founders' Memorial Lecture at the 2021 annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA), set Oct. 31-Nov. 3 at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver.
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UC Davis professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows how flour and cereal should be stored. (Screen shot from her presentation on YouTube.)
Bug Squad: Article

The Beetles, a Growing Concern in Davis

May 18, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The beetles are coming! No, this is not a historical reference to that famed rock band from Liverpool. These are real beetles. The insects.
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