Invasive Pest Spotlight: Pampasgrass & Jubatagrass
The invasive pest spotlight focuses on emerging or potential invasive pests in California. In this issue, we cover the invasive plants pampasgrass and jubatagrass.
Pampasgrass & jubatagrass facts
Pampasgrass (Figure 1, top) is a common ornamental flandscape plant that readily naturalizes throughout California's coastal areas and some interior regions. Historically, pampasgrass was planted for erosion control, but it has since escaped cultivation and spread along sandy, moist ditch banks throughout coastal regions of southern California. Pampagrass can also grow in the hot, dry.../h2>
From the Topics in the Subtropics blog :: March 4, 2020
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So I've gotten a few calls lately about this vine with a big green pod that is growing in lemon trees. What is done with it and how do you get rid of it?
Araujia sericifera, cruel vine, moth plant, bladderflower is an escaped ornamental that has become an invasive weed in California. Yes, a pretty vine brought into the garden – “poor man's stephanotis” - and it's gotten out...
- Author: Angela Calderaro
- Author: David Bubenheim
- Posted by: Guy B Kyser
Through a partnership with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Delta Regional Areawide Aquatic Weed Project (DRAAWP), NASA has developed Floating Aquatic Vegetation (FAV) mapping tools intended for operational use by DBW. An initial tool based on the Landsat Satellite provided Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) with map imagery from satellite data that depicted live water hyacinth and water primrose acreage of areas with 30-meter pixels at approximately 14-day intervals. The FAV Mapping Tool is being modified to utilize a new satellite, Sentinel-2, with increased spatial and spectral resolution as well as...
From the Topics in Subtropics blog
The following article is from the UC ANR Integrated Pest Management website, authored by Cheryl Wilen.
Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris) is an aptly named summer annual found widely in California. Native...
- Author: Guy B Kyser
Saw a nice article about a gall fly soon to be released for control of Cape ivy. Our old friend Baldo from CDFA started work on this in 2001, so it's been a while coming. Cape ivy is our version of kudzu, at least along the coast.