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		<title> DPR proposes changes to pesticide use in landscaped areas and around structures</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[California Department of Pesticide Regulation NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE&#xa0; Oct. 28, 2011 (11-15)Media contact: Lea Brooks lbrooks@cdpr.ca.gov or 916.445.3974Department of Pesticide Regulation Proposes Restrictions in Urban Areas to Protect Water QualitySACRAMENTO - Businesses that provide structural pest control would be required to follow strict new controls that limit where pesticides are applied around structures to protect water quality under regulations proposed today by the California......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:23:48 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Presentation from Effective Use of Pesticides in Ornamental Production</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a presentation (same one I did at the FarWest Show) today and was asked to post it. &#xa0;Unfortunately, I haven&apos;t had time to figure out the new website program (sorry DK!) so I&apos;m putting it here.It is called &quot;Are you spending too much on weed control?&quot; and it is geared towards container nurseries....<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:21:08 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> My first meeting with a brown widow spider</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[I was playing with our new puppy today and was rolling around on the back yard with her. As it turns out, there is also a birdbath where we were playing and I happened to look up when I was under it and found a bunch of burr-like sacs underneath. &#xa0; Photo by Rick VetterThese are egg sacs of the brown widow spider and the sacs are so distinctive, that even I knew what they were. &#xa0;Here is what they look like to me:
I even found the spider itself and have to say it was a lot smaller and more......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:14:04 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Pest Priorities - Make YOUR VOICE COUNT</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[The IR4 Program helps expand pesticide labels for use in minor crops &#xa0;such as ornamental plant production. &#xa0;Western US issues are often put in at a lower rank because growers in the east and midwest participate more in priority setting surveys including the one I link to below.If you want to have a say in what products are going to have targeted testing, you NEED to fill out this survey.
 
Participate today in the Grower &amp;amp; Extension Survey:
 
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The survey is available on the IR-4......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:12:33 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Crossing the Blogosphere and more</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[I don&apos;t want anyone to miss out on my latest post even if it&apos;s somewhere else.&#xa0; I just put something up of the UC WEED SCIENCE blog. See &quot;Summer means polarized sunglasses&quot; http://ucanr.org/blogs/UCDWeedScience/index.cfm
I also want to alert you to a meeting coming up on August 27 at the South Coast Research and Extension Center in Irvine.Pitahaya (Dragon Fruit) Festival and Field Day 
I&apos;ll be talking about Pitahaya IPM (Gophers, Birds, Snails and Weeds).
See the EVENTS section on the right......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:01:43 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Need Continuing Education?</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[Rather than wait until November to finish up your CEUs for your PA, QAL, QAC, or PCA (if you don&apos;t know what these are, you don&apos;t need to read any further), here are some sites where you can get some online education and get units for free (!!).First off, UC IPM has developed a set of training modules:
IPM &#8211; A Solution for Reducing Pesticides/Water Quality: Pesticide Properties
Learn key elements of an IPM program, when pesticides are necessary, and alternative control methods. Also presented......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 11:39:01 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> New Green Bulletin is out!</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[The latest edition of the Green Bulletin is out and you can get it at http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/greenbulletin/
The sixth issue features articles on Calibrating Spray Application Equipment, a guide to Common Weeds in Lawns in California, a new and free Online Training for pest management professionals and pesticide applicators, and  answers to pesticide application questions in our continuing column, Ask the Expert.
AND...links to Common Weeds in Lawns and Common Turfgrass Species in......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:47:41 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Date set for IPM Seminar for Landscapers</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[Save May 19th 2011 for the Annual IPM for Professional Landscapers Meeting.This year we will be trying a new venue - The Chula Vista Nature Center. While Chula Vista may sound far, it&apos;s really only 15 min. south of the the where we held the meeting the last 3 years.We are planning on starting a 8am and going to 3pm. Admission to the Center is included so after the meeting at 3pm you can go watch them feed the sharks and rays and at 3:30 they feed the birds....<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:22:09 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Why I don&apos;t drink red grapefruit juice</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[In the interest of disclosure, I am a vegetarian. It&apos;s not a fad, I haven&apos;t intentionally eaten meat, chicken, fish or seafood for nearly 40 years. And when I found out that that red grapefruit juice is often colored with dye from squashed&#xa0;cochineal beetles I stopped drinking that too. &#xa0;But what other foods use it? Until now, dye from the cochineal beetle (actually it&apos;s a scale insect) only needed to be listed as&#xa0;something like &#8220;coloring added.&#8221; Starting today (1/5/11), foods and cosmetics must......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:17:27 PST</pubDate>
		<link>http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4009&amp;utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed</link>
		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Hunting the Red Palm Weevil</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3872&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed"><img src="http://ucanr.org/blogs/South/blogfiles/5661small.png" align="left" border="0"></a>First of all, I cannot tell you how important it is for you NOT to put out traps. There is a lot of information online about these traps but when people start putting them out, it completely messes up the detection program that the state is conducting.
Having said that, if you see any of the following things on or near a Canary Island Date Palm&#xa0; please contact the following: CDFA Pest Hotline at 1-800-491-1899 or go to the CDFA&apos;s Report A Pest website at: www.cdfa.ca.gov/go/reportapest 
Also...<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:08:03 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Possible weed ID!</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[I just got an email from Michael J. who suggested that the weed I could not ID (see July 15 2009 post) &#xa0;is an Echium. &#xa0;I looked it up and it looks like Echium vulgare L. (common viper&apos;s bugloss).&#xa0;I just moved it to a greenhouse last week so I&apos;ll take another look at it tomorrow.According to the USDA Plants Profile site (http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ECVU), there are no specimens reported in California. I&apos;ll take it to ag commissioners office so they can send it to CDFA for an......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:40:50 PST</pubDate>
		<link>http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3789&amp;utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed</link>
		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Does burying the weed count as control?</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3657&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed"><img src="http://ucanr.org/blogs/South/blogfiles/5318small.jpg" align="left" border="0"></a>As a followup to my last posting here, I started one liverwort trial looking at postemergence materials. So far some of them look pretty darn good although I don&apos;t have any crops in the test it may turn out that they also kill them as well as the liverwort.
I also started a preemergence study today (from a a grant from the California Association of Nurseries andGarden Centers). One of the treatments is mustard seed meal (MSM).&#xa0; Since I am doing this collaboratively with a couple of advisors in...<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:29:10 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Starting liverwort trials</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3584&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed"><img src="http://ucanr.org/blogs/South/blogfiles/5201small.jpg" align="left" border="0"></a>Finally got going on setting up some trials to look at controlling liverwort in greenhouses.&#xa0; Got funding from IR4 and California Asso. of Nurseries and Garden Centers and am working on part of it with Steve Tjosvold and Richard Smith, advisors in the Santa Cruz/Monterey Co. area. &#xa0;We have lots of lower toxicity products that look like they may do the trick! When I did some preliminary work at a commercial greenhouse I thought for sure I was going to burn the crop to the nubs but most of the...<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:45:26 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> 99 cent store fined for illegal pesticide sales</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[Consumers should not assume that just because a pesticide is sold at some discount store that it is actually safe and legal to use.&#xa0; By the way, I still see the infamous pesticide chalk sold at swap meets/open air markets.
http://retail.ocregister.com/2010/09/15/99-cents-only-stores-fined-for-selling-illegal-products/34868/...<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:35:59 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Bed Bugs - Pesticide Use - You Decide</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100830/ap_on_re_us/us_bedbug_conundrum

US grapples with bedbugs, misuse of pesticides















AP&#xa0;&#8211;&#xa0;FILE - This 2008 file photo provided by Virginia Tech Department of Entomology shows mother and child&#xa0;&#8230;



By MATT LEINGANG, Associated Press Writer &#8211;&#xa0;13&#xa0;mins&#xa0;ago

COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8211; A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:52:25 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Green Bulletin Newsletter starts production</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[The Green Bulletin has started production and you can find it at http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/greenbulletin/This newsletter directed at pest management professionals in the structural and landscape pest control business provides timely tips and updates about pests, pesticides, application techniques, and other related news with the emphasis on protecting water quality.To be notified when a new issue comes out, you can subscribe on the page listed above or directly at......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:19:13 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Traveling? Itching when you return?</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[Although I don&apos;t want to raise any alarms, bed bug questions come up around this time of year. It may be the increase in temperature or it may be that people are traveling and sometimes they come &#xa0;back with bed bugs on their luggage. &#xa0;This slide show (in PDF format) &#xa0;provides detailed information about detecting bed bugs and what to expect if your home needs to be treated.
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Documents/BedBugs/Bedbugpresentation2006.pdf
For more information that may be......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:42:07 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> New threat to landscapes</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[See this video from Utah state about a new invasive problem.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0foMKAxCww...<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:45:20 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Earth Week Resolution</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[Not so much on IPM this time, but more of an environmental blog today.
A few weeks ago, I was listening to NPR and during part of a radio show, the speaker was saying she made a pledge to stop using disposable plastic bags (like the kind used for groceries).&#xa0; She said that they can end up in the ocean and look like jellyfish to sea turtles. When a turtle eats the bag, its stomach is blocked and it ends up starving to death.&#xa0; I&apos;m not going to post any photos or articles here. You can search for......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:16:48 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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		<title> Discounted Publications - January</title>      
		<description><![CDATA[Just got an email about UC Agriculture and Natural Resources having a book sale (up to 40% off!!) because they are moving to another warehouse. &#xa0;Prices good until 1/31/10.One of the books on sale is
Natural Enemies Handbook
Take advantage of  this rare opportunity to pick up this classic at a great  price!
Released in summer  1998, the Natural Enemies Handbook endures as the most comprehensive guide to  biological control agents ever made available to practitioners. Helps you  identify and......<br clear="all">]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:07:46 PST</pubDate>
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		<author> cawilen@ucdavis.edu(Cheryl A. Wilen)</author>
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