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How to control household ants?

Q: I have an ant problem inside my house. Throughout the year I have ants roaming every room of my house, with periodic outbreaks when they find something to eat. When there's an outbreak, I use bait to deal with them, but...

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Stink bugs and boxelder bugs everywhere?

Q: The exterior of my house is covered in stink bugs and boxelder bugs. Occasionally, some also get inside my home. How do I get rid of them without using pesticides?

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Onion cost of production in Eastern Oregon and Idaho

These enterprise budget resources cover the costs associated with producing onions in the Treasure Valley. The PDF document covers how costs were estimated and the Excel workbook allows you to adjust costs to better match your operation. 

Christy Tanner, Stuart Reitz | Sep 2022 | Collection

The Economic Impact of Onion Pests in the Treasure Valley

A look at pest data for onions grown in the Treasure Valley demonstrates the yield and economic impacts of specific pests and management practices. This data can help researchers, crop consultants and those interested in ...

Katie Murray, Paul Jepson, Hang-Kwang Luh, Stuart Reitz | Mar 2022 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Was this spider silk or something else?

Q: While driving across the upper Klamath Basin mid October, my husband and I saw what looked like spider silk or web drifting in the air, and caught in trees and fence-lines - lots of it! Can you tell me what that is?

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Is this a hobo spider?

Q: My neighbor has found this spider (see picture) twice in her house recently. Do you know what type of spider it is? Is it a hobo spider, and is it dangerous?

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What is this huge larvae in my mason bee box?

Q: I found a chunk of dried mud with some larvae embedded in it. It was in our mason bee box, but way too big for mason bees. What could it be?

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An Integrated Pest Management Strategic Plan for Treasure Valley Onions: Oregon and Idaho (2019)

Growers, commodity-group representatives, pest-control advisors, university specialists, and other technical experts from the Treasure Valley in Oregon and Idaho provide an overview of onion production. They identify pest management ...

Katie Murray, Stuart Reitz, Paul Jepson | Sep 2019 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

An Integrated Pest Management Strategic Plan for Treasure Valley Onions: Oregon and Idaho

A newer revision exists, please see EM 9254. In a proactive effort to identify pest management priorities and increase use of Integrated Pest Management in onions, growers, commodity-group representatives, pest control advisors, ...

Katie Murray, Stuart Reitz, Paul Jepson | Feb 2018 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Jumping spider encounter?

Q: I just watched a spider of the small jumping kind crawl up from the floor board of my car, across the dash, and onto my steering wheel column. It then climbed out to the end of the steering wheel column, closest to ...

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Potato Psyllid Vector of Zebra Chip Disease in the Pacific Northwest

This publication addresses the emergent issue in the Pacific Northwest of a potato infection called zebra chip disease, vectored by the potato psyllid. Includes information on the bacterium, the biology of the vector, description ...

Silvia I. Rondon, Phil Hamm, Darrin Walenta, Stuart Reitz | May 2017 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Is it warm enough to release ladybugs?

Q: We have an infestation of lady bugs upstairs in our house. Am I helping them by collecting them and taking them outside or will they just die because it's too cold?

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When should I release the Monarchs?

Q: I am planning to be able to release Monarch butterflies, but need to know when the proper time for doing this in Salem. Can you find this information for me?

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Internal Dry Scale and Associated Bulb Rots of Onion

Onion growers and packers in the Pacific Northwest have observed a problem on red, white, and yellow cultivars: internal dry scale. Bulbs affected by internal dry scale have dead inner scales that are susceptible to fungi, ...

Stuart Reitz | May 2016 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Integrating Integrated Pest Management

Insects, weeds and plant pathogens are problems that confront farmers in trying to grow a successful crop. Insect pests can defoliate crop plants. Weeds can outcompete crops for light, water and nutrients. Pathogens can cause disease epidemics that destroy entire crops.

Stuart Reitz | Jul 2015 | Video

Integrated Pest Management: Pest Management Integration

This video explores Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as an approach to protecting your crop from insects, weeds and plant pathogens. IPM uses multiple tactics to manage a particular pest and takes into consideration how management of one pest may affect management of other pests.

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stuart Reitz | Jul 2015 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Integrated Pest Management: Using A Plant Press

Preserving plant specimens is the best way to identify plants by their characteristics at a later period of time. It is always best (if possible) to collect the entire plant specimen at peak production, so you have included ...

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stuart Reitz | Jul 2015 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Integrated Pest Management: How to Identify a Plant or Weed

This video demonstrates the best ways to identify a plant or weed. It covers the process of photographing and collecting the plant and then how to narrow down and establish the plant's category. It explains how to use a field guide and a dichotomous key to identify a plant.

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stuart Reitz | Jul 2015 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Integrated Pest Management: Detecting Plant Diseases in the Lab

This video describes how the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center examines plant disease samples to determine pathogens and plant diseases. Once the problem is identified, the lab recommends treatment and control methods.

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stuart Reitz | Jul 2015 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Integrated Pest Management: Monitoring Diseases In The Field

This video explains how to do field scouting for diseases and vectors by walking through a field and observing a number of locations. Diseases can reduce the yield and nutritional quality of crops., and vectors — organisms ...

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stuart Reitz | Jul 2015 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Orange level)

IPM Insect Pests of Wheat

Presentation by Steve Van Vleet, Washington State University, Whitman County Extension

Silvia I. Rondon, Stuart Reitz, Steve Van Vleet | Apr 2010 | Video Peer reviewed (Gray level)

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