Job Title: Ecological Pest Management Program Specialist Location: Based out of CAFF's Davis office with regular travel throughout the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley region FTE: 1.
Support the work of the UC IPM Urban and Community Program! Our mission and work to help Californians continues despite the COVID-19 pandemic. With your support, we will continue to provide practical, trusted pest management answers to people like you across our state.
With Thanksgiving around the corner, we want to take a moment to appreciate the work that goes into producing the foods we eat at Thanksgiving and every day. There are many pests that attack the crops we grow and many hands that help get food from the field to our tables.
Our mission to help Californians continues despite the COVID-19 pandemic. With your help, we provide practical, trusted pest management answers to people like you across our state. Support the work of the UC IPM Urban and Community Program with your gift.
The safety of the weed killer glyphosate, the active ingredient in some well-known Roundup products, has been the subject of attention recently because of lawsuits that connected the chemical to cancer in humans. Based on extensive scientific research, U.S.
Weeds are usually thought of as native plants we don't want in areas such as landscapes, fields, or vegetable gardens either because they reduce economic output or they are considered aesthetically displeasing.
They knew the answer. "A worker honey bee has how many pairs of wax glands on its abdomen?" That would be four, answered the UC Davis Entomology Team did at the Entomological Society of America's Virtual Entomology Games, a college-bowl type of competition formerly known as the Linnaean Games.
The first sighting of emerald ash borer in North America occurred in 2002, when it was discovered attacking ash trees in Ontario, Canada and what U.S. state? If you answered Michigan, as the UC Davis Entomology Team did, you're right.
Bed bugs can hitch rides on secondhand furniture, luggage, backpacks and other personal items to invade homes and attack people. While we rest and sleep on sofas and beds, the insects come out to feed. They want to suck our blood.
