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Rodent Awareness Week 2022

You may not think about rodents such as rats, mice, or gophers until they become a pest around your...

Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 10:37 AM

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Author: Lauren Fordyce

Tags: bait (10), disease (66), IPM (250), management (77), mice (14), pest (256), pest management (219), rats (23), rodent (16), traps (12), UC IPM (518)

Focus Area Tags: Health, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Summertime California Ground Squirrel Management

Summer is upon us so what does that mean for California ground squirrel management? As a...

Posted on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 3:00 PM

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Author: Carolyn Whitesell
Author: Niamh Quinn
Posted by: Elaine Lander

Tags: bait (10), Green Bulletin (11), ground squirrel (10), label (10), pest (256), pest management (219), Pest Notes (122), pesticide safety (23), Quinn (18), rodenticide (12), traps (12), UC IPM (518), vertebrate (9), Whitesell (2)

Focus Area Tags: Environment, Natural Resources, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

For the first butterfly, it was the right place at the right time. An alfalfa or sulfur...

An alfalfa butterfly, Colias eurytheme, nectaring on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

An alfalfa butterfly, Colias eurytheme, nectaring on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Gotcha! This unfortunate alfalfa butterfly fluttered into the wrong place at the wrong time. In its larval stage, it is a pest of alfalfa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Gotcha! This unfortunate alfalfa butterfly fluttered into the wrong place at the wrong time. In its larval stage, it is a pest of alfalfa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 5:32 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: alfalfa (0), alfalfa butterfly (0), Art Shapiro (0), Colias eurytheme (0), UC Davis (0), UC IPM (0), yellow sticky traps (0)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Economic Development, Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Pest Management

Rats in the Garden

If you are growing tomatoes in your garden, you may not be the only vertebrate going for your hard...

Posted on Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 3:18 PM

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Author: Elaine Lander

Tags: garden (156), management (77), pest management (219), Pest Notes (122), rats (23), rodent (16), tomato (16), trapping (6), traps (12)

Focus Area Tags: Food, Health, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Rats and Mice: How to Manage Using Snap Traps

Trapping is the safest and most effective method for controlling rats and mice in and around homes,...

Posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 3:00 PM

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Author: Niamh Quinn
Posted by: Elaine Lander

Tags: house mouse (5), management (77), mice (14), Niamh Quinn (20), pest management (219), Quinn (18), rats (23), rodent (16), rodents (14), trapping (6), traps (12), UC IPM (518)

Focus Area Tags: Health, Pest Management, Yard & Garden

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Posts Tagged: traps

Rodent Awareness Week 2022

Summertime California Ground Squirrel Management

Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

Rats in the Garden

Rats and Mice: How to Manage Using Snap Traps

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