Posts Tagged: UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program
Run, Roaches, Run!
Folks will do just about anything to remove cockroaches from their homes, but when it comes to UC...
Kyle Elshoff of the UC Davis Entomology Club retrieves a winning roach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Brittany Kohler checks to see which roach came in first. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ian Clark (foreground) works the crowd and the roaches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Some roaches escape before they can be lined up to run. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Who Doesn't Love a Ladybug?
Who doesn't love a ladybug? Call them ladybugs, call them ladybirds, call them lady beetles, call...
A lady beetle, aka ladybug, devouring aphids in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Elaine Lander, urban and community IPM educator with the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program, talks to a youngster about lady beetles, aka ladybugs, at the 2019 UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Karey Windbiel-Rojas, associate director for Urban and Community IPM and area Urban IPM advisor, answers a question at the 2019 UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Soldiering On
They're curious little critters. When solider beetles (family Cantharidae) go on patrol in...
A soldier beetle seeking aphids and other soft-bodied insects on a strawberry plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Here an aphid, there an aphid...A soldier beetle on patrol. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This image shows the soldier beetle's 11-segmented antennae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A quick flight to a fence post and then the soldier beetle prepares to leave. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Don't Cotton to This Pest
It sucks sap, it secretes honeydew, and it draws ants. And curious photographers. Last weekend we...
An infestation of cottony cushion scale on Nandina (Nandina domestica). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of cottony cushion scale. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spring Is Bustin' Out All Over
June is bustin' out all overAll over the meadow and the hillBuds 're bustin' outa bushesAnd the...
A multicolored Asian lady beetle looking for love--or prey--on a mallow on the first day of spring. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lady beetle, you are not alone. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two multicolored Asian lady beetles who found one another. Well, call that a lady beetle and a gentleman beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's spring! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)