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Home and Garden Pest Newsletter

The Home and Garden Pest Newsletter is a three times yearly e-newsletter created to help provide Californians with the latest pest information from the University of California. In our issues you will find reliable, up-to-date information on how to identify and manage new and existing pests in and around your home, garden, and landscape.

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Vol. 5 · No. 4 · Fall 2025

Current issue
  • Management of Urban Rats and Mice
  • Rodenticides: Further Restrictions in 2025
  • Updated Rodent Pest Notes
  • Invasive Pest Spotlight: Nutria
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Two adult rats, <i>Rattus</i> spp., in the grass at an urban park during the day.

Vol. 5 · No. 3 · Summer 2025

  • Aloe and Agave Pests
  • Just a Kiss? Kissing Bugs in Summer
  • 2025 Invasive Species Webinar Mini-Series
  • Invasive Pest Spotlight: Golden Mussel
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Young potted blue glow agave hybrid, <i>Agave attenuata</i> and <i>Agave ocahui</i>, with greasy streaks on leaves caused by agave mites, <i>Oziella</i> sp.

Vol. 5 · No. 2 · May 2025

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Infestation of yellow starthistle, <i>Centaurea solstitialis</i>, on hillside.

Vol. 3 · No. 2 · Summer 2023

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French broom <I>Genista monspessulana</I> infestation.
Updated: 11/2025
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