The blog "Good Life Garden," developed as part of the UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, plugged the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management website in its most recent "Website Wednesday" feature.
The Good Life Garden itself is an edible landscape in the Mondavi Institute courtyard featuring organic and sustainably grown vegetables, herbs and flowers. Together with the blog of the same name, the garden was designed to educate the public on growing, buying and preparing good tasting and nutritious fresh food.
The blog entry said that last February a pest was found on the bottom of a cabbage leaf. The garden manager turned to the IPM website and found a detailed description that matched the pest, the cabbageworm.
"Voila!" the blog says. "We have a cabbageworm and now know the best way to manage them is by handpicking. Now that was easy!"
The blog also invited readers to post a picture of a pest they can't identify on the Good Life Garden's Facebook page. A question on the page about earwigs refers to an IPM Pest Note on the topic.
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