Sandipa Gautam, Area Citrus IPM Advisor serving Kern, Tulare, Fresno, and Madera counties has been maintaining a web page on the Lindcove Website Citrus IPM - Lindcove Research and Extension Center (ucanr.edu). Within this page, she writes a blog on pest issues that are problem for growers in the SJV region. For subscribing, click https://ucanr.edu/blogs/IPMBlog/ and enter your email address. You will receive an email to confirm subscription, follow the instructions to complete subscription. Every time a post is made you will receive and email notification.  This page also hosts pest memos of this season and archives from the previous season along with links to Citrus related extension posts, newsletters.

Within the Citrus IPM tab, you will also find Degree Days, which is regularly updated for California red scale for four counties in the SJV.  If you are in Ventura county or other citrus growing counties (not in the valley) and California red scale is a pest you manage and are interested in Degree Day calculation and predictions, please contact sangautam@Ucanr.edu .

If you would like to receive emails on pest memos/other events, please send an email to sangautam@ucanr.edu to be added to her email list.