Pest Management & Plant Health

A very spiny plant was dropped off at my office here in Woodland, CA that turned out to be Canada thistle, a noxious weed (Photo 1).

If you've been talking to your plants for years, you are not alone. But know this: plants can communicate, too. They eavesdrop, sense danger in the environment, and can distinguish friend from foe.

Richard Smith is the UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Advisor for Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties and Daniel Hasegawa is a USDA ARS Research Entomologist for the Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit in Salinas, California.

The UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardeners are excited to announce we've broken ground on our Learning Landscape. The project will be a combination of demonstration gardens and an outdoor classroom.

Five UC Davis entomology graduate students scored high in the Entomological Society of America's highly competitive student competitions, part of the organization's Nov. 16-25 virtual meeting.

2020 UCR Urban Entomology Fall Workshop Online was held on November 10, 2020. There were >80 participants for this online event. The event had following five topics discussed.

With Thanksgiving around the corner, we want to take a moment to appreciate the work that goes into producing the foods we eat at Thanksgiving and every day. There are many pests that attack the crops we grow and many hands that help get food from the field to our tables.

Here's the latest issue of the UC (ANR) Cooperative Extension Lassen County Farm Advisor's Update newsletter: November 2020 contents: Is Irrigating Alfalfa After Last Cutting a Good Idea? What To Do When an Animal Dies?

Our mission to help Californians continues despite the COVID-19 pandemic. With your help, we provide practical, trusted pest management answers to people like you across our state. Support the work of the UC IPM Urban and Community Program with your gift.

The safety of the weed killer glyphosate, the active ingredient in some well-known Roundup products, has been the subject of attention recently because of lawsuits that connected the chemical to cancer in humans. Based on extensive scientific research, U.S.