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Webinars!

The UC IPM Urban & Community Program hosts monthly webinars that are free and open to the...

Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 9:50 AM

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Author: Lauren Fordyce

Tags: arachnophobia (5), climate change (176), disinfectant (1), drought (219), IPM (241), management (75), pest (247), pest management (210), spiders (48), trees (37), UC IPM (509), webinar (37)

Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Webinars: Spiders, Pesticides and Water!

Are you concerned about pesticides in our waterways? Join us on August 18, 2022 at noon for UC...

Jumping spider eating a fly. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]

Jumping spider eating a fly. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]

Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 5:54 PM

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Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas

Tags: arachnophobia (5), Kimsey (1), pesticides (61), pests (98), quality (1), spiders (48), UC IPM (509), water (137), webinar (37), Windbiel (5)

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

Don't Believe Everything You Read About Spiders--Or Anything Else for that Matter!

Just a hoax. A fear-mongering hoax. A so-called Facebook "public service announcement" on Aug. 21...

The woodlouse spider, Dysderca crocata, is neither a new species nor deadly, contrary to a Facebook hoax disguised as a public service announcement. (Photo by Michel Vuijlsteke, courtesy of Wikipedia)

The woodlouse spider, Dysderca crocata, is neither a new species nor deadly, contrary to a Facebook hoax disguised as a public service announcement. (Photo by Michel Vuijlsteke, courtesy of Wikipedia)

This is a male woodlouse spider, Dysderca crocata. (Photo © Hans Hillewaert, courtesy of Wikipedia)

This is a male woodlouse spider, Dysderca crocata. (Photo © Hans Hillewaert, courtesy of Wikipedia)

Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 5:00 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: arachnophobia (5), Art Shapiro (297), Dysderca crocata (1), Entomological Society of America (125), ESA (24), fake news (2), hoax (1), snopes (1), UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology (37), woodlouse spider (1)

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

I Am NOT Afraid of Spiders!

Repeat after me. “I am NOT afraid of spiders. I am NOT afraid of spiders. I am NOT afraid of...

Louisa Lo, executive administrative assistant for Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology, sits next a sign proclaiming she is not afraid of spiders. She is. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 2:12 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Arachnophobia (5), Bruce Hammock (77), Louisa Lo (1), Shirley Gee (1), spiders (48), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (762)

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