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Fruit Tree Monitoring for Pests

Stone fruit trees like apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach, plum, and prune are a staple of many...

Posted on Monday, May 7, 2018 at 1:43 PM

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Tags: apricot (4), brown rot (3), cherry (7), eutypa dieback (2), monitor (5), nectarine (8), peach (6), peach leaf curl (12), pest (256), plum (3), prune (5), shot hole disease (1), spotted wing drosophila (23), UC IPM (518)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Pruning Trees in Winter

Winter is an ideal time to prune deciduous fruit and shade trees, since the trees are dormant and...

Posted on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 4:41 PM

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Tags: apricot (4), cherry (7), disease (66), dormant (1), environmental disorders (5), fruit (46), pest (256), prune (5), pruning (9), tree (25), trees (37), UC IPM (518), winter (16)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

It’s Time to Prepare Your Landscape for Winter!

Now is the time to prepare your garden and landscape for winter. The simple tasks recommended below...

Posted on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 7:58 PM

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Author: Anne Schellman
Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: disease (66), garden (156), gardener (4), insects (101), landscape (100), monthly (1), pathogens (11), pest (256), pests (98), prune (5), sanitation (9), tips (17), UC IPM (518), weeds (122), winter (16), winter (16)

It's Time to Prune Apricot & Cherry Trees

Although most fruit trees are pruned during the dormant season, in areas with wet winters, apricots...

Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 1:48 PM

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Tags: apricot (4), bacterial (3), botryosphaeria (2), canker (5), cherries (9), cherry (7), diseases (12), eutypa dieback (2), fungal (4), pathogens (11), prune (5)

Some Very Hungry Caterpillars

What an amazing photo! Vacaville resident Cindy Carmouche, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente, captured...

Cindy Carmouche of Vacaville captured this amazing photo of early instar redhumped caterpilllars eating the leaves of her French prune tree.

Cindy Carmouche of Vacaville captured this amazing photo of early instar redhumped caterpilllars eating the leaves of her French prune tree.

This photo shows several redhumpbed caterpillars dining on the leaves of a redbud tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This photo shows several redhumpbed caterpillars dining on the leaves of a redbud tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 4:56 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Cindy Carmouche (0), David Wagner (0), French prune leaves (0), Lynn Kimsey (0), redhumped caterpillars (0), Schizura concinna (0)

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Posts Tagged: prune

Fruit Tree Monitoring for Pests

Pruning Trees in Winter

It’s Time to Prepare Your Landscape for Winter!

It's Time to Prune Apricot & Cherry Trees

Some Very Hungry Caterpillars

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