Natural environment pests
Insects, diseases, and invasive weeds threaten California's natural environments as well as homes, gardens, and agriculture. This page contains links to articles, fact sheets, and other information prepared by UC scientists on topics related to pests in natural environments.
Insects & other arthropods |
Plant diseases |
Weeds & other unwanted plants
Aquatic invasives |
Vertebrate pests
Insects & other arthropods
- Asian longhorned beetle
- Pest alert from Western IPM Center
- News: Collective effort produces Asian longhorned beetle information
- Bagrada bug
- Bark beetles
- California oakworm
- Eucalyptus longhorned borers
- Goldspotted oak borer
- Grasshoppers
- Mosquitoes
- Oak pit scales
- Obscure scale
- Success story: Biological control of an exotic oak pest
- Pitch moths
- Redhaired bark beetle
- Sycamore scale
- Ticks
- Walnut twig beetle
- Thousand cankers disease and walnut twig beetles in California
- Field Identification Guide: Walnut Twig Beetle and Thousand Cankers Disease
- Quick Guide: Installing and Maintaining Walnut Twig Beetle Pheromone-baited Traps
- Detecting and Identifying the Walnut Twig Beetle: Monitoring Guidelines
- Video: Installing Walnut Twig Beetle Traps
- Video: Maintaining Walnut Twig Beetle Traps
- Wood wasps and horntails
Plant diseases
- Pitch canker
- Pierce's disease
- Web site: Xylella fastidiosa
- Sudden oak death
- Sudden Oak Death
- Web site: Sudden Oak Death from UCCE Sonoma
- Success story: UC a leader in the fight against sudden oak death
- Web site: Sudden oak death from the California Oak Mortality Task Force
- Thousand cankers disease of walnuts
- Wood decay fungi
Weeds & other unwanted plants
- Barb goatgrass
- Brooms
- Burning & stinging nettles
- Dodder
- Eurasian watermilfoil
- Invasive plants
- Invasive plants
- Web site: California Invasive Plant Inventory from California Invasive Plant Council
- Exotic pest plants
- Herbicide resistance: definition and management strategies
- Fact sheet: Invasive plants and wildfires in southern California
- Web site: UC Weed Research and Information Center
- Web site: Invasive weed management from UCCE Central Sierra
- Web site: Invasive species from UCCE Lake County
- Web site: Invasive species from UCCE Los Angeles
- Book: Weeds of California and Other Western States
- CD: Broadleaf weed identification
- CD: Grass weed identification
- Giant reed
- Medusahead
- Success story: Controlling medusahead with intensive grazing
- Mistletoe
- Perennial pepperweed
- Plantains
- Poison hemlock
- Poison oak
- Puncturevine
- Russian thistle
- Sahara mustard
- Wild blackberries
- Woody invaders
- Yellow starthistle
Aquatic invasives
- Crustaceans, mollusks, worms, and fish
- Hull-borne invasive species
- Invasive aquatic plants
- Web site: UC Weed Research and Information Center
- Pond management from UCCE Central Sierra
- Invasive species from UCCE Lake County
- Book: Aquatic and Riparian Weeds of the West
- Book: Aquatic Pest Control (Pesticide Application Compendium Volume 5)
- Mosquitoes
- New Zealand mudsnail
- New Zealand mudsnail research and extension from UCCE
- Invasive species from UCCE Lake County
- Quagga and zebra mussels
- Driessenid mussel research and extension from UCCE
- Invasive species from UCCE Lake County
- Sargassum muticum
- Sabellid polychaete (a fan worm)
Vertebrate pests
- Coyote
- Deer
- Deer mouse
- Ground squirrel
- Rattlesnakes
- Wild pig
- Woodpeckers
