Utah Pests
Utah Pests Newsletter
2023
2022
- Unusual Pest Finds
- Root-knot Nematodes on Vegetables
- Pesticide Resistance in Alfalfa
- Jumping Worms
- Conifer Auger Beetle
- Hints For Healthy Houseplants
- New Tumbleweed-feeding Insect in Utah
- Cactus Moth
- Utah's Cut Flower Industry
- Herbicide Residues in Compost
- Weed Biocontrol
- Microbial Pesticides
- New Diseases of Cut flowers
- Vegetable IPM Farm for Outdoor Teaching
- Oystershell Scale
- Spider Mites on Juniper
- Summer is Wasp Season
- New Invasive Pest Newsletter
- Weeds, Arthropods, and Crops
- West Nile Virus in Horses
- Tomato Problems 2022
- Plastic Mulch and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
- Spread of Emerald Ash Borer
- Sacrificial Sunflowers
- Bee Hotel Maintenance
2021
- Asian Longhorned Beetle Status in Utah
- Leafhopper Western-X Vector Survey
- New Utah Vegetable Production and Pest Management Website
- Fire Blight Management Product Testing
- Tips For Planning Next Season's Garden
- Coming to Terms with Termites
- Notable American Women Entomologists
- Basics of Soil Health
- Ips Bark Beetles on Spruce and Pine
- Video Series on Blue Orchard Bees
- Cutworms in Utah Vegetables
- Bacterial Bulb Rot Diseases in Utah
- Watch Out for Invasive Zebra Mussels
- Balsam Woolly Adelgid Research
- Cold Temperatures and Trees
- Invasive Box Tree Moth
- Abiotic Problems of Tomato
- Spittlebugs
- No 17-year Cicada “Plague” in Utah – But We do Have Cicadas!
- Bee Assassin Bug Predating on BMSB
- Identifying Land-Use and Climate Impacting Bumble Bees
- Invasive Spotted Lanternfly
- Text Line for Photo Diagnostics
- Trap Crop to Suppress Squash Bug
- Drought and Summer Insect Outbreaks in Turf
- Fusarium Diseases in Tomato
- Master Gardener IPM Scouts Program
2020
- Recognizing Wood Decay
- Blue Alfalfa Aphid Research
- Greenhouse Biocontrol Profile
- EPA Approves New Rodenticide
- Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus
- Utah Pests and COVID-19
- Conservation Biological Control in Utah
- Managing Alfalfa Weevil
- Diseases of Hemp
- Russet Potato Diseases
- Summary of Utah TRAPs
- Lookout for Japanese Beetle
- Identifying Fox Squirrels and Their Damage
- Bacterial Wilt of Geranium
- Options for Weed Barriers
- Murder Hornet Madness
- Grasshoppers in Central Utah
- Utah Study of Hemp Pests
- Dahlia Mosaic Virus
- Native and Exotic Parasitoid Wasps
- Spider Mites Active with Hot, Dry Conditions
- Got "Worms" in Your Berries?
- Tomatillo Trouble Maker
- Asian Giant Hornet Look-alikes
2019
- Insect Fear and IPM
- New Plant Diseases Seen in Utah
- Vegetable Diseases in Greenhouses
- Purchase Legal Pesticides
- Biocontrol of BMSB
- Overwintering Leaffooted Bugs
- Sycamore Scale
- Plant Resistance
- BMSB Development
- BMSB Biocontrol
- Vegetable Herbicide Damage
- Cytospora Canker
- Soil Management for Vegetables
- Spiders
- Diseases in Wet Soils
- Leafminer Survey
- Entomopathogens
- Western Yellowjacket
- Row Covers
- IPM Training in Pacific Islands
- Pythium on Hemp
- EAB not in Utah
- Pesticide Risk Resources
- Trap Crops
- Odorous House Ant
- Pest Busts and Booms
2018
- Balsam Woolly Adelgid
- Greenhouse Guardian Plants
- Pest Identification Guides
- Beneficial Disturbances
- Genetic Mutations of Plants
- Vegetable Varieties and Seeds
- Biochar
- Root Weevils
- Codling Moth Biofix Model
- White Satin Moth
- Spider Mites like Neonics
- 5 Insect Pests to Watch For
- Worker Protection Training
- 20+ Years of IPM Impacts
- BMSB Survey
- Thousand Cankers Disease
- Plant Disease Diagnosis
- Firewood Quarantine
- Indicator Plants
- Turf Billbug Management
- Skeletonizers in the Closet
- The Real Story of Kissing Bugs
- Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
- Proper Produce Storage
- Exotic Bee ID Tool
- New Invasive Tick
- High Insect Populations
2017
- Ergot on small grains
- European cherry fruit fly
- Indoor flies
- Bird damage to fruits
- Curly top virus update
- 10 years of Utah Pests
- Aphids on grains
- Mite burn on raspberry
- Recluse spiders
- Western X-disease
- Organic veg insect control
- High tunnel pest management
- Elm seed bug
- Pocket gopher control
- Gypsy moth
- Downy mildew of spinach
- Pest management with DNA
- Neonicotinoid phase-out
- Predicting billbug management
- Brown marmorated stink bug status in Utah
- Verticillium wilt in vegetables
- Insect populations in 2017
- 6-plume moth
- Insecticide netting
2016
- Orchard leafroller survey
- Wheeler Farm demo gardens
- Using certified seed
- Plant disease outbreaks
- Biopesticides
- Vole activity and injury
- Clover root curculio on alfalfa
- New invasive fruit pest
- Two new agricultural pests
- Thrips and aphids in alfalfa
- Grocery produce and plant Diseases
- Saving seeds
- Hot-water seed treatment
- Scouting in greenhouses
- Velvet longhorned beetle
- Homemade ant baits
- Organic fruit pest control
- Mosquitoes in water features
- Leaf mold on tomato
- Manage weeds chemical free
- Lygus in alfalfa
- Protecting native bees
- New honey bee pest
- New pear pest
- Tall fescue for lawns
- Viruses in grains and corn
- Drones for plant health
- Resistance to emerald ash borer
- Hummingbirds and mites
- Genes, drought, and pests
- Trap crops
2015
- New Potato Disease in Utah
- Emerald Ash Borer Update
- Favorite Books and Websites
- Turf and Alfalfa Pests
- Organic Orchard Research
- Selecting Seeds
- Importance of Volunteering
- Pitch Moths on Pine
- Emerald Ash Borer Biocontrol
- Raptors on Farmland
- Warm Winters and Insects
- TRAPs and Fruit PestFinder Apps
- Compost and Mulching Gardens
- New Invasive Aphid
- iPIPE Early Warning System
- Insect-Feeding ID
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Turf Renovation
- Raspberry Cane Borers
- Alfalfa Aphids in 2015
- Being an Informed Consumer
- Herbicide Damage on Vegetables
- Neonicotinoids in the News
- Cover Crop Establishment
- Cover Crops for Pest Management
- Pitch Moth Update
- Russet Mite on Tomato
- Cool-Season Turfgrass Varieties
- Hobo Spider Acquittal
2014
- Onion Research in Utah
- Turf Insects and Research
- Emerald Ash Borer
- Preventing Mice Indoors
- Brown Rot in 2013
- Biochar
- By-catch from Insect Surveys
- School IPM Progress
- Apple Maggot
- Preventing Crop Pests
- Greenhouse Biocontrol
- Clover Mites
- Proper Sample Submission
- Youths and Biocontrol Insect Outbreaks, Explained
- Don't Move Firewood
- Compost Insects
- Parasitoids
- Brown Needles on Conifers
- Elm Seedbug New in Utah
- School IPM workshops
- Bacterial Spot of Pepper
- Billbug in Turf
- Fruit and Vegetable Monitoring
- Spotted Wing Drosophila and Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Update
2013
- Alfalfa Insects Review
- Post-harvest Storage Diseases
- Preventing Winter Injury
- Odd Tree Growth
- European Earwig Update
- Spring Cleaning Tasks
- Buffalograss as Turf
- New Pesticide Registrations
- Raptors and Rodenticides
- Impatiens Downy Mildew
- Dormant Sprays 101
- Fear No Weevil
- Insects as Food
- Trap Cropping Grasshoppers
- Invasive Pest Monitoring
- New Biocontrol Website
- Insect Traps
- Beneficial Nematodes
- Masked hunter
- Summer Fire Blight
- Tomato Bacterial Diseases
- Growing Heirloom Tomatoes
- Preventing Invasive Pests
- Kestrels on Farmlands
- Pest Monitoring in Schools
- Excluding Insects
- Plant Self-Defense
2012
Fall
Winter Cover Crops
USU Student Organic Farm
Elm Seed Bug
Breakout Season for Mites
Insect Vectors of Viruses
Take-all Patch of Turf
Drought and Honey Bees
Chinch bugs in Turf
Summer
Grasshopper Alert
Spittle Bugs
Getting Chemicals into Trees
Grower Profile
Alfalfa Weevil Control
Springtails
Honey Bee Resources
Monitoring Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Root-Knot Nematodes
Spring
Chlorotic Pine Trees
Tomato Diseases
Injecting Chemicals into Trees
High Tunnel Pest Management
CAPS Update
Tick/Lyme Disease Survey
Home Orchard Pest Management
Fungicide Effects on Bees
Pests in Alfalfa
Facebook Contest/Bee Workshop
Winter
Prionus Mating Disruption
Jar Test
Scentless Seed Bugs
Honey Bee Navigation
CAPS Update
Monitoring Alfalfa Weevil
Cluster Flies
Growing Healthy Plants
2011
Fall
Fall Spider Activity
Grasshopper Control Program
Fall Beetles in Turf
CAPS Update
Biopesticides
Raspberry Cane Injury in 2011
Honey Bees as Structural Pests
Predatory Insects
Summer
Honeybee Swarms
Aphid Infestations
Hollyhock Weevils
Earwigs in Peach Orchards
November 2010 Freeze
Peach Leaf Curl
Carpet and Hide Beetles
Predatory Insects
Spring
Alfalfa Weevil Monitoring
Powdery Mildew
Plant Defenses
CAPS Update
Bark Beetles
Monitoring or Insects
Cherry Fruit Fly Research
Winter
Bacterial Wetwood on Cottonwood
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Importance of CAPS
Winter Weather and Insect Activity
Delusional Infestation
Backyard Powdery Mildews
2010
Fall
Spotted Wing Drosophila
Glyphosate Injury to Trees
Proper Disease Sample Submission
Raspberry Horntail Research
Farm Bill Programs Support
West Nile Virus
Pollinators
Hobo Spiders
Grasshoppers
Summer
Vegetable Garden Pests
Ticks and Diseases
Invasive Vinegar Fly
European Grapevine Moth
Increasing Pollinators
Logan Bee Lab
Spring
Lilac-Ash Borer
Undergraduate Research
CAPS Update
Diagnostic Posters
CAPS Update
Companion Planting
Winter
Battling Bed Bugs
Turfgrass Insects
Native Plants' Response to Pests
Encouraging Pollinators
Lookout for Invasive Pests in Utah
2009
Fall
Birds and Bats for Insect Control
Ash and Elm Yellows
Raspberry Horntail
UPPDL Submissions
Summer
Pavement Ants
School IPM
Wasp Traps
Curly Top Virus
Black Grass Bug
Armillaria Root Rot
Spring
Cherry Research
Imidacloprid
Head Lice
Turf Diseases
Black Pineleaf Scale
Transitioning to Organic
Winter
Houseplants
Tomato virus
Conifer Diseases
Biocontrol Agents
2008 Tree Fruit Report
Spruce Insects
Jail Hort Program
2008
Fall
New Walnut Disease
Peach Bacterial Canker
Fall Lawn Tasks
Spiders, Wasps, Bees
Summer
Winter Grain Mite
Dothistroma
Black Grass Bug
Coryneum blight
Spring
Bee Health
Onion Powdery Mildew
Turf Snow Mold
Cankerworm
Carpenter Ants
Soil and Tissue Nutrient Testing
Winter
Unusual Plant Diseases
Onion Thrips Research
Woolly Apple Aphid Research
Drought and Trees
Overwintering Insects
Hobo Spider Key
2007
Fall
2007 Tree Fruit Report
Western Corn Rootworm
European Earwig
Boxelder Bug
Summer
Plants for Pollinators
Homeowner Reduced Risk Pesticides
Hobo Spider
Stripe Rust of Wheat
Spring
Japanese Beetle
Using Microbial Pesticides
Potato Cyst Nematode
Fire Blight Update