Help Us Help You! Complete Our Needs Survey

UC IPM is looking for feedback from UC Master Gardener programs to help us determine education and outreach needs on pest management issues. The short 7-question survey will help us focus our efforts and help you better serve your communities.

Access the survey at https://surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.cfm?surveynumber=39243.

Master Gardener Program Coordinators can either gather suggestions from your volunteers and only submit one survey for each county or you can blast it out to all volunteers.  We will compile results and share them with you once ready. The deadline to submit feedback is March 31, 2024. We appreciate your input!

Urban & Community IPM Webinars

As you may know, UC IPM hosts free monthly webinars on pest identification, management, and prevention in and around the home, garden, and landscape. Webinars for the first half of 2024 are now open for registration.

These webinars are open to the general public so please announce them widely by sharing through social media and your local contact lists. Check UC IPM's Facebook and Instagram for webinar flyers/posts that you can reshare; and remember to tag us @ucipmurban!

The monthly webinars are held from 12:00 to 1:00pm on the third Thursday of each month. They are recorded and posted to UC IPM's YouTube channel for those who can't attend the live webinar. Visit our YouTube channel to see past webinar recordings.

Here are the IPM webinars for the first half of 2024:

• February 15 - Controlling Springtime Weeds
• March 21 - Insect Egg Identification (Easter egg hunt!)
• April 18 - Mosquitoes & Ticks of Public Health Concern
• May 16 - Moles, Voles, and Gophers!
• June 20 - Flea Control & Diseases: Starting from Scratch

Learn more and register at https://ucanr.edu/sites/ucipm-community-webinars/. Check our blog and social media pages to learn about new webinars, pest management tips, and more!

Happy New Year!
Lauren Fordyce and Karey Windbiel-Rojas, UC IPM