Posts Tagged: insecticide
Insecticide Sprays Ineffective for Cockroach Control
Nobody wants cockroaches in their home, especially since these pests can cause and worsen allergies...
Updated Pesticide Active Ingredient Database from UC IPM
The University of California Statewide IPM Program (UC IPM) has an exciting, newly updated resource...
Newly Published UC Davis Study: How Imidacloprid Affects Blue Orchard Bees
The systemic insecticide imidacloprid, belonging to a class of chemicals called the...
A blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria, heads for a lacy phacelia, Phacelia tanacetifolia, at UC Davis. (Photo by Clara Stuligross)
Co-author of the PNAS paper is pollination ecologist Neal Williams, professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Applying Pesticides around Edible Gardens
If your company does residential landscape pest control, your employees should be trained to know...
Bug Bombs—Dangerous and Not Always Effective
Insecticide foggers, also known as total release foggers or “bug bombs” (Figure 1), are...