Pests Tips
Here's a collection of our monthly tips about managing various pests, weeds, diseases, or other conditions. "IPM" stands for Integrated Pest Management. It's a process you can use to solve pest problems while minimizing risks to people and the environment. Learn more at UC's IPM website.
To-Dos: IPM, Pests and Diseases
Almond and Walnut Harvest
Clean Up Fallen Fruit
Controlling Bermudagrass
Garden Sanitation
Paint Fruit Trees to Prevent Sunburn
Peach Leaf Curl Preventive Care
Poison Oak
Protecting Birds and Crops
Protecting Fruit
Tomato Bottom Scarring
Weed Management
Pests and Diseases: IPM, Pests and Diseases
Ailing Ornamental Trees
Ant Control
Aphids
Armillaria Root Rot
Armored Scale Control
Avocado Leaves
Avocados, Brown Spot
Bagrada Bug
Birds
Bitter Pit (Brown Spots) on Apples
Boxwood Blight
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Brown Rot on Apricot and Peaches
Bug Patrol
Cabbage Aphids
Camellia Petal Blight
Carpenter Bees
Citrus Bud Mite - Leave It Alone
Citrus Leaf Drop
Citrus Leafminer
Citrus Pruning and Care
Citrus Sooty Leaves
Codling Moth
Control Insect Pests with Horticultural Oil
Cottony Cushion Scale
Decay in Trees
Deer
Don't Move Firewood
Dormant Oil Spraying
Earwigs
Eugenia Psyllid
Fire Blight
Fruit Damage
Fungus Gnats
Fusarium Wilt
Giant Whiteflies
Gophers
Gray Mold (Botrytis)
Gummosis in Stone Fruit
Healthy Tomatoes
Identifying Beneficial Insects
Leafcutter Bees - a Beneficial Insect
Leafminers
Limes
Manage Pests with “Integrated Pest Management”
Mistletoe
Moles
Mosaic Virus
Neem Oil
Oak Root Fungus
Oakworm
Peach Leaf Curl Preventive Care
Pepper Weevil
Peppertree Psyllids
Pest Alert - Spotted Lanternfly
Plum Bud Gall Mite
Powdery Mildew
Protecting California
Rat Management
Root Knot Nematodes
Rose Care
Slime Molds
Snails and Slugs
Sooty Mold
Spiders in Your Garden
Spider Mites
Spotted Wing Drosophila
Squash Bugs
Squirrel Control
Stink Bugs
Sudden Oak Death
Sunscald on Fruits and Vegetables
Termites
Tick Information
Today’s Grubs Are Tomorrow’s Beetles
Tomato Hornworm
Tomato Russet Mite
Tomato blossom end rot
Travel rules for plants, seeds, and flowers
Verticillium Wilt
White Butterflies and Green Caterpillars
White Mold on Lettuce and Brussels Sprouts
Whiteflies
Yellowjackets and Wasps