Technical Papers
Bee Keepers List
Foamy Bark Canker
- Foamy Bark Canker is now in Tuolumne County
- 31 May 2017 update on foamy bark canker
- Looking inside a foaming canker
- Retrieval of a western oak bark beetle from a live oak canker
- Foamy bark canker actively foaming
- Paul Cooper Finds Another Foamy Bark Canker Infested Live Oak. 25 October 2016
- How Quickly Did Foamy Bark Canker Damage the Live Oak?
- Calaveras Enterprise article on Foamy Bark Canker 20 October 2016
- Foamy Bark Canker is now in Calaveras County
Foothill Sierra Pest Control in the News
- Foothill-Sierra Pest Control Wins Best Pest Control in 2020 Union Democrat Best of Contest
- Foothill-Sierra Pest Control Wins Best Pest Control in 2019 Union Democrat Best of Contest
- Foothill-Sierra Pest Control Wins Four Categories in the Sierra Lodestar’s 2019 Contest
- Foothill-Sierra Pest Control Wins 2018 Sierra Lodestar Best of the Mother Lode Awards
- Foothill-Sierra Pest Control Wins 2018 Union Democrat Reader’s Choice Awards
- Ryles Richards in Bohart Museum Society Newsletter Fall 2019
- Bohart Museum Society Newsletter referencing Snailcase Bagworms
- Rodents and rattlers.
- FSPC wins 2017 Best Place to Work and Best Pest Control in the Mother Lode, and Best Customer Service and Business in Tuolumne County
- Union Democrat article on Foamy Bark Canker
- Calaveras Enterprise article on Foamy Bark Canker 20 October 2016
- Poison Oak article
- Beware the Widows Union Democrat 21 July 2016
- 2016 Sonora Spring Festival
- Sarah Lunsford’s article, The Bugs Around Us, in Sierra Lodestar, June 3-9, 2015
- Foothill Sierra Pest Control Wins Best Place to Work, 2015
- 18 July 2014 Union Democrat article on Prionus beetles
Foothill Sierra Technical Pages
- Spaelotis bicava moths in house in Bear Valley, Alpine County
- Mother Lode Area Invaded by Charcoal Beetles
- gutter
- Small worker of Camponotus semitestaceus, Valley Springs CA
- lacewing larvae in genus Ceraeochrysa
- Male and female mutillid wasps found near egg-laying location, Groveland CA
- Probable Formica argentea from Twain Harte area
- House infested with both brown-dotted clothes moths and Indian meal moths
- Monomorium ant, from China, taped to Frozen toy box
- Frost damage to blue oaks
- Another discovery of the possible new species of debris-carrying lacewing
- Subterranean termite drop tubes in Murphys California
- Pavement ants in Murphys
- Subterranean termites using mud sheathing to encase lumber
- Full Moon Ant
- Sawdust piles from Pine Tree Ants in Arnold CA
- Erik Brians’ dead opossum feeds the turkey vultures
- Termite Frass 1-17-22
- Deer mouse dies in bait station
- Bedbug Bullets
- Bear tears open an Aegis-RP rat bait station
- Hylastes bark beetles attacking wet plywood in attic
- ant
- Thousands of house flies invade home
- The tiny subterranean termite collected in Dorrington
- Masses of bedbud shed skins serve as bedbug habitat
- Ryles’ PML frass sample
- Ficus stem bumps
- Bug
- Another collection of the unknown tiny, dark subterranean termites, from Groveland
- Webspinners
- Toyon trees
- Floating wasps
- Puccinia rust on Vinca
- Pack rat nest
- Termite Frass
- Winged female thief ant
- Gall wasp – Cynipidae.
- Nomad bee
- 41363 Ant
- sample review for AZ
- March flies
- Cuckoo wasp
- Phymatodes nitidus, a giant sequoia cone beetle
- False honey ants, Prenolepis imparis
- This house is like a black hole to weed bugs and house flies
- Western Subterranean Termites in Sonora Hills
- Extensive acorn woodpecker mast (acorn) storage damage to stucco siding
- Heavy aphid infestation on rose bush
- Pavement Ants in Valley Springs CA
- Powderpost beetles attacking bamboo flooring
- ant
- Roof Rat Nest in Chicken Coop
- Photinia fungus
- Probable bird poop
- unk wasp
- tree problems
- Tape sample photos for AZ
- Narrow leaved miner’s lettuce, Claytonia parviflora
- Giant Lacewings, Polystoechotes
- Pine Tree Ants nesting in styrofoam packing material
- Plant ID
- Pocket gopher sleeping and dreaming. Yes, gophers dream.
- Bedbugs living between carpet and baseboard killed by Crossfire
- Tree Squirrel Attacking a Japanese Maple
- Western Fence Lizard Sitting on its Haunches
- Sherman spray valve
- California Horntail Wasp
- Live oak blister mites
- Psocid (booklice) infestation in rice
- Ant midden on windowsill in Valley Springs
- Pointer injection for elm leaf beetle control
- Probable crambid lawn moth, Agriphila attenuata
- PO Moth
- Kitty litter
- Telegraphweed
- Brown lacewings found on windowsill
- Thrips on Tarweed Flowers
- Fruit Fly
- Alate Queens of Lasius
- The Comanche Green Lacewing
- Bird’s Nest Mushroom
- Insects in rotting roof beam
- The big-eyed arboreal ant, Pseudomyrmex apache, on manzanita in Groveland
- Turkestan Cockroaches are now in Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
- Mottled branch
- Ultra-high chickaree exclusion job in Bear Valley
- Green sap oozing from pine tree
- Labels
- Pine tree ants, liometopum luctuosum, attacking oven insulation
- Drugstore beetles in a bathroom – RESOLVED!
- Possible Formica aerata in Groveland California, Tuolumne County
- Thrips attracted to white surfaces
- Tiny Termite Swarmers from Groveland
- Oak groundling moth larvae from inside a common eumenid wasp nest
- Tiny Subterranean Termite Swarmers
- Mouse tries to make off with almond from trap
- Bear attacks garbage can in Dorrington
- Termite tubes in driveway
- Bernard, the Golden Huntsman spider, Olios giganteus
- Opossum tracks
- Probable lygaeoid nymphs
- ? Ant Reproductives
- Bleeding oak
- Chinch Bug
- Small Worker of the Carpenter Ant Camponotus quercicola
- Two Pack Rat Nests Under a House in Pine Mt Lake, Groveland
- weed
- A Pocket Gopher’s Cache of Bermuda Grass Roots
- Wood decay with beautiful patterns
- weed photos
- 3-Inch Wide Subterranean Termite Tube
- Raccoon Exclusion in Sugar Pine area
- More Swallow Exclusion in Bear Valley
- 36089 frass
- Beetle frass from drawer
- White Mold on Subarea Dirt
- Comparison of the Rescue Disposable Fly Trap and a Chinese knock-off
- Yellow jacket nest in grill of VW Van
- Aerial yellow jacket nest takes over a birdhouse
- Rapid kill of elm leaf beetle larvae from tree injection
- Velvety tree ants, Liometopum occidentale, infesting a ceiling
- Dead Horsehair Worms
- Panicle Willowherb
- Photo Diary of a Western Wood Pewee Nest
- Chalcedon Checkerspot
- Gray squirrel predating valley oak gall wasp larvae or eating galls?
- Pallid bat’s scorpion-filled midden
- Chromosera cyanophylla
- Swallow Exclusion at Bear Valley
- Army Ants in Columbia California
- A possible new species of debris-carrying green lacewing larva
- Termite tubes coming up through paver stones
- Large aggregations of Sierran tree frog polliwogs
- Carpet beetles infesting a stuffed rat on public display, with powderpost beetles eating the base
- Earthworm crawling vertically up a stucco wall
- Differences between General Pest (Branch 2) and Wood Destroying Organisms (Branch 3)
- plant id
- Mouse with nose stuck in Ketch-All live trap
- Bats in corner trim and roof tiles in Forest Meadows
- Raccoon access point under a house
- The Eurasian Mealworm is its official name
- Variation in Valley Oak acorns
- Cory Runyan removes a big dead raccoon from under a house
- Two roof rats in one snap trap
- Cute Mousetrap Costume
- A Massive House Fly Invasion
- Chest-Level Bat House
- Chickaree Home Invasion, Strawberry area
- Eurasian Mealworms, Miscellaneous Notes
- Lawn Damage
- A large haul of roof rats
- Telegraph Weed
- Eurasian mealworms in Elverta, Sacramento County, California
- Eurasian mealworm pesticide resistance concerns
- March of the Mealworms
- Lori Dunlap specimens-pupae of Eurasian mealworms
- Eurasian mealworms like to climb
- Granular Insect Bait Acceptance Testing for Eurasian Mealworms, Opatroides punctulatus
- Pallid Bats in Roof Ridge
- A full bathouse
- Probable Canker Rot Fungi in Valley Oak
- Opatroides punctulatus, a new invasive insect in Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties
- Common Spikeweed
- Dog Vomit Slime Mold
- White fungus on a beam ???
- Sand Wasps, Bembix
- Multi-branch collapse on valley oaks in Gold Springs, 8 July 2018
- A European Leafhopper, Euscelidius variegatus, in Sonora (not a new event)
- FLY
- Dead winged ant on a mud dauber wasp
- Large multi-celled mud dauber nest
- Carpenter ants taking over a house in MiWuk Village
- Salamander
- Bag Contents 35595
- beetles
- Skunk damage in subarea of home
- Skunk caught in live trap
- Ladybugs en Masse, Twain Harte California
- Snailcase Bagworms are now in Tuolumne County – May 2018
- Pogogyne serpylloides, native mint
- Mark Mills heading out to do star thistle control
- Mosquito hunting near Bear Valley California May 2018
- GoodNature A24 rat trap
- Red-breasted Nuthatch using a woodpecker hole as a nesting site
- Barn Swallow Bugs
- Ceanothus Silkmoth
- Bat making sounds to protest disturbance
- Mouse bait station destroyed by roof rats
- Bat removed from within a house in Burson, California
- Snailcase Bagworms: a New Pest in Calaveras County: April 2018
- Roof rat eating a pumpkin, and then running off with rat bait
- Neoclytus conjunctus, oak firewood borer, Sonora
- bad mouse infestation
- Karen Taylor photos from Belize and Peru
- Geometrid moth larvae crawling inchworm-style
- Some type of pine nut
- Small seeds in sofa
- Extra large subterranean termite tube
- Zelus egg mass
Botanical Observations
- Frost damage to blue oaks
- Ficus stem bumps
- Toyon trees
- Plant ID
- Thrips on Tarweed Flowers
- Mottled branch
- Green sap oozing from pine tree
- Variation in Valley Oak acorns
- Multi-branch collapse on valley oaks in Gold Springs, 8 July 2018
- Declining Valley Oak
- A Large Manzanita Tree
- Pouch fungus, Cryptoporus volvatus, growing out of beetle-killed ponderosa pines
- California Manroot, Marah fabaceus
- Valley Oak that lost a large branch 25 June 2015. Gold Springs, Columbia Ca.
Customer Notes
Eurasian Mealworms
- The Eurasian Mealworm is its official name
- Eurasian Mealworms, Miscellaneous Notes
- Eurasian mealworms in Elverta, Sacramento County, California
- Eurasian mealworm pesticide resistance concerns
- March of the Mealworms
- Lori Dunlap specimens-pupae of Eurasian mealworms
- Eurasian mealworms like to climb
- Granular Insect Bait Acceptance Testing for Eurasian Mealworms, Opatroides punctulatus
- Opatroides punctulatus, a new invasive insect in Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties
- Tenebrionid (mealworm) larvae infestation within a home -First discovery
Frass Collection
- Termite Frass 1-17-22
- Ryles’ PML frass sample
- Termite Frass
- Probable bird poop
- Kitty litter
- 36089 frass
- Beetle frass from drawer
- More drywood termite frass
- Possible beetle feces
- Frass of the California Tent Caterpillar
- Solitary bee frass
- Vertebrate Droppings Under a House
- Drywood Termite Frass
- Possible anobiid beetle frass
Insects and related pests
- Spaelotis bicava moths in house in Bear Valley, Alpine County
- Small worker of Camponotus semitestaceus, Valley Springs CA
- lacewing larvae in genus Ceraeochrysa
- Male and female mutillid wasps found near egg-laying location, Groveland CA
- Probable Formica argentea from Twain Harte area
- House infested with both brown-dotted clothes moths and Indian meal moths
- Monomorium ant, from China, taped to Frozen toy box
- Another discovery of the possible new species of debris-carrying lacewing
- Pavement ants in Murphys
- ant
- Masses of bedbud shed skins serve as bedbug habitat
- Webspinners
- Winged female thief ant
- Gall wasp – Cynipidae.
- Nomad bee
- 41363 Ant
- March flies
- Phymatodes nitidus, a giant sequoia cone beetle
- False honey ants, Prenolepis imparis
- Pavement Ants in Valley Springs CA
- Giant Lacewings, Polystoechotes
- California Horntail Wasp
- Live oak blister mites
- Psocid (booklice) infestation in rice
- Ant midden on windowsill in Valley Springs
- Alate Queens of Lasius
- The big-eyed arboreal ant, Pseudomyrmex apache, on manzanita in Groveland
- Turkestan Cockroaches are now in Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
- Labels
- Drugstore beetles in a bathroom – RESOLVED!
- Possible Formica aerata in Groveland California, Tuolumne County
- Oak groundling moth larvae from inside a common eumenid wasp nest
- Chrysobothris beetles
- Kissing bugs
- Armyworms
- Valley Oak Leaf Galls
- Comparing Prionus and Ergates
- Prionus beetles
- Common eumenid wasps
Mosquitoes
- Mosquito hunting near Bear Valley California May 2018
- Floodwater mosquitoes near Columbia State Park
- Cryptic Vernal Pool Containing Floodwater Mosquitoes near Apple Valley
- The Pond in Bloods Meadow, Bear Valley, California
- Where the mosquitoes at Mosquito Lake come from
- Vernal Pools and the Granite Staircase Formation at Bear Valley California
- Snow Pool Mosquitoes and Fairy Shrimp
Photos
- Mother Lode Area Invaded by Charcoal Beetles
- Full Moon Ant
- Erik Brians’ dead opossum feeds the turkey vultures
- Bedbug Bullets
- Bear tears open an Aegis-RP rat bait station
- Bug
- Puccinia rust on Vinca
- sample review for AZ
- Cuckoo wasp
- This house is like a black hole to weed bugs and house flies
- Heavy aphid infestation on rose bush
- ant
- Photinia fungus
- unk wasp
- tree problems
- Tape sample photos for AZ
- Western Fence Lizard Sitting on its Haunches
- Probable crambid lawn moth, Agriphila attenuata
- PO Moth
- Brown lacewings found on windowsill
- Fruit Fly
- The Comanche Green Lacewing
- Bird’s Nest Mushroom
- Thrips attracted to white surfaces
- Bernard, the Golden Huntsman spider, Olios giganteus
- Probable lygaeoid nymphs
- Bleeding oak
- Chinch Bug
- Small Worker of the Carpenter Ant Camponotus quercicola
- Wood decay with beautiful patterns
- White Mold on Subarea Dirt
- Yellow jacket nest in grill of VW Van
- Aerial yellow jacket nest takes over a birdhouse
- Dead Horsehair Worms
- Chalcedon Checkerspot
- Chromosera cyanophylla
- Army Ants in Columbia California
- A possible new species of debris-carrying green lacewing larva
- Carpet beetles infesting a stuffed rat on public display, with powderpost beetles eating the base
- A Massive House Fly Invasion
- Lawn Damage
- Probable Canker Rot Fungi in Valley Oak
- Dog Vomit Slime Mold
- White fungus on a beam ???
- Sand Wasps, Bembix
- A European Leafhopper, Euscelidius variegatus, in Sonora (not a new event)
- FLY
- Dead winged ant on a mud dauber wasp
- Large multi-celled mud dauber nest
- Salamander
- Bag Contents 35595
- beetles
- Ladybugs en Masse, Twain Harte California
- Snailcase Bagworms are now in Tuolumne County – May 2018
- Barn Swallow Bugs
- Snailcase Bagworms: a New Pest in Calaveras County: April 2018
- Neoclytus conjunctus, oak firewood borer, Sonora
- Karen Taylor photos from Belize and Peru
- Small seeds in sofa
- Zelus egg mass
- Adult Male Megahexura fulva
- Flat bugs living inside pouch fungus conks
- Soldier beetle, Trypherus, Long Barn area
- Booklice in a Buckwheat Hull Mattress
- The Oak Cordwood Borer, Xylotrechus nauticus
- Eye gnat, genus Liohippelates
- Leafhopper Population Explosion in Valley Springs California
- Extreme Bedbug Infestation on a Sofa
- Cicada in Columbia
- Diving Beetles
- Cedar fungus
- Pacific Gopher Snake Caught in Bird Netting
- The Mining Bee, Andrena
- Black Flies from an interior light fixture
- Red and Black Carpenter Ants, Camponotus semitestaceus
- Odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile reproductives
- Cicada nymph
- Incense Cedar Pitch Tubes with Beetles
- Leafhopper Assassin Bug, Zelus renardii
- Ambrosia beetles
- Small Staphylinid beetle
- Box Elder Bugs Invading a Home
- Blue Oak Infected with Ganoderma in Calaveras County
- Dark-Winged Fungus Gnats
- Edward’s Glassywing
- Sapsucker damage
- Bordered Plant Bug Nymphs
- Pine Tree Injections Don’t Always Work
- Ladybug Pupa, Twain Harte California
- Steve Deaver Photo Gallery
- Horse Dung Fungus, Pisolithus tinctorius
- Stiletto fly, Thereva fucata
- Spiny Wood Borer, or Pine Sawyer
- Redhumped Caterpillars on Eastern Redbud
- Yellow jacket nest encasing a bicycle pump
- Robber Fly, Pritchardomyia vespoides
- Serious Yellow Jacket Sting
- Serica, small June beetles
- Yellow Jacket nest, dug from ground
- Southern Fire Ants in Jamestown California
- Amblyopone ants
- Blowfly maggots from crack in the concrete at a meat processing plant
- Annoying Fruit Flies
- Dead Raccoon in Attic
- Western Wood Cockroach, Parcoblatta Americana
- False Chinch Bugs
- Rain-Resistant Solitary Bee or Wasp Nest
- Chaparral Camel Cricket
- Golden huntsman spider, Olios giganteus
- Wild, white California poppy
- Nate Spring Photo Gallery
- Leeches and Pills article from The Union Democrat
- Burrowing bees, genus Andrena
- Rain Beetle larva and adults
- Juvenile Sharp-Shinned Hawk
- Syrphid flies from a residence
- Olive fruit fly damage
- Ten-lined June Beetle
- Sequoia Pitch Moth larvae found in hole with oozing sap in a pine tree
- Bald-Faced Hornet
- Missouri Walking Stick
- Black Vine Weevil
- Caterpillar of Gulf Fritillary Butterfly, on Passion Flower
- Inch Long Spider Wasp
- Blue Oak galls
- Red Flour Beetles
- Erik Brians’ glueboard specimens
- Assassin Bug
- Redgum Lerp Psyllid on Eucalyptus
- Flesh Flies on glueboard
- Woolly oak aphids on black oak leaf
- Metallic wood boring beetle
- Skimmer dragonfly
- Kukulcania hibernalis, Southern House Spider
- Black carpet beetle
- Carpenter ant, Middle Camp Road, Twain Harte, Ca. ~11 June 2015
- Soldier fly
- Black and yellow mud dauber
- Carpenter bee
- Field mouse caught in trap
- Ground beetle, Pterostichus
- Powder Post Beetles
- Western fence lizard with a broken tail.
- Ironclad Beetles
- Oak Groundling, Telphusa sedulitella
- Wet Young Gopher
- Titiotus spider – a non-toxic, brown recluse look-alike
- Neoclytus conjunctus, Twain Harte CA ( firewood borer)
- The rough stink bug, Brochymena quadripustulata
- A photo journal of a house finch nest with chicks
- Live oak cluster beetle, Cibdelis blaschkei
- Underwing moth (genus Catocala) from caterpillar to adult
- White-lined sphinx moth
- Male Pacific Coast Tick
- Quantum Ant Bait
- Alligator Lizard Photo by Paul Cooper
- Cluster of Oak Apple Galls
- Giant Willow Aphids
- These are NOT spider bites
- The Weed Bug, Arhyssus crassus
- Juvenile Male Western Black Widow
- Titiotus
- Drain Fly Larvae
- The Valley Carpenter Bee
- A Giant Robber Fly, Pritchardomyia vespoides, from Arnold CA
- Bald-Faced Hornet Nest
- Acorn Woodpecker Granary Fence Post
- Vaejovid scorpions
- Unidentified fungus
- Murphys driveway maggots
- Solpugid
- Praying mantis eating a western fence lizard
- Cottony Cushion Scale honeydew beads
Fungi
- Puccinia rust on Vinca
- Photinia fungus
- Bird’s Nest Mushroom
- Bleeding oak
- Wood decay with beautiful patterns
- White Mold on Subarea Dirt
- Chromosera cyanophylla
- Probable Canker Rot Fungi in Valley Oak
- Dog Vomit Slime Mold
- White fungus on a beam ???
- Horse Dung Fungus, Pisolithus tinctorius
- Unidentified fungus
Pine Tree Ants, Liometopum luctuosum
- Sawdust piles from Pine Tree Ants in Arnold CA
- Pine Tree Ants nesting in styrofoam packing material
- Pine tree ants, liometopum luctuosum, attacking oven insulation
- ? Ant Reproductives
- Velvety tree ants, Liometopum occidentale, infesting a ceiling
- Sawdust Accumulation by Pine Tree Ants
- Maranatha Pine Tree Ant job
- Pine Tree Ant Nest Midden
- Pine Tree Ants in ceiling, making noise
- The Pine Tree Ant: A Wood-Destroying Ant
- Pine Tree Ants (2)
- Pine Tree Ants
Vertebrate Control and Exclusion
- Deer mouse dies in bait station
- Pack rat nest
- Extensive acorn woodpecker mast (acorn) storage damage to stucco siding
- Roof Rat Nest in Chicken Coop
- Tree Squirrel Attacking a Japanese Maple
- Ultra-high chickaree exclusion job in Bear Valley
- Mouse tries to make off with almond from trap
- Bear attacks garbage can in Dorrington
- Opossum tracks
- Two Pack Rat Nests Under a House in Pine Mt Lake, Groveland
- A Pocket Gopher’s Cache of Bermuda Grass Roots
- Raccoon Exclusion in Sugar Pine area
- More Swallow Exclusion in Bear Valley
- Photo Diary of a Western Wood Pewee Nest
- Gray squirrel predating valley oak gall wasp larvae or eating galls?
- Pallid bat’s scorpion-filled midden
- Swallow Exclusion at Bear Valley
- Mouse with nose stuck in Ketch-All live trap
- Bats in corner trim and roof tiles in Forest Meadows
- Raccoon access point under a house
- Cory Runyan removes a big dead raccoon from under a house
- Two roof rats in one snap trap
- Chest-Level Bat House
- Chickaree Home Invasion, Strawberry area
- A large haul of roof rats
- Pallid Bats in Roof Ridge
- A full bathouse
- Skunk damage in subarea of home
- Skunk caught in live trap
- GoodNature A24 rat trap
- Red-breasted Nuthatch using a woodpecker hole as a nesting site
- Bat making sounds to protest disturbance
- Mouse bait station destroyed by roof rats
- Bat removed from within a house in Burson, California
- bad mouse infestation
- Some type of pine nut
- Cannibal Rat Caught
- Crazy Photos: Chickaree Stores Hundreds of Douglas Fir Cones in a House
- Artistic Use of Bird Spikes to Repel Bats
- The Monster Under the Bed
- Unusual Rat Kill
- A Sky-High Squirrel Exclusion Job
- Excluding a Chickaree in Camp Connell
- Shrew killed in a rat trap
- Bat Exclusion in Groveland California
- Bat Exclusion in Copperopolis
- Bats Living Next to a Chimney
- Really Bad Bat Infestation in a Home
- Flying Squirrel in Attic
- Roof Rat Nest
- Pigeon Exclusion Without Structural Modifications
- Rattlesnake found in a customer’s shed
- Roof Rat in Attic
Videos
- Thousands of house flies invade home
- Floating wasps
- Pocket gopher sleeping and dreaming. Yes, gophers dream.
- Bedbugs living between carpet and baseboard killed by Crossfire
- Pointer injection for elm leaf beetle control
- Comparison of the Rescue Disposable Fly Trap and a Chinese knock-off
- Rapid kill of elm leaf beetle larvae from tree injection
- Large aggregations of Sierran tree frog polliwogs
- Earthworm crawling vertically up a stucco wall
- Carpenter ants taking over a house in MiWuk Village
- Roof rat eating a pumpkin, and then running off with rat bait
- Geometrid moth larvae crawling inchworm-style
- Common Eumenid Wasps Blocked from Entering House
- Boxelder Bugs Mating
- Southern Fire Ants at New Melones Reservoir
- Pack Rats Excluded From Under Home, With a Visit by a Weasel
- Using a Drone to Inspect a Roof for Squirrel Entry Points
- The Argo Spray Rig in Action
- Kelp flies, Coelopa, in Seaweed
- Pine Tree Ants in ceiling, making noise
- Bats exiting from under roof tiles
- Little red centipede, Strigamia, in motion
- Brown centipede
- Little red millipede, probably genus Brachycybe
- Casemaking clothes moth larvae
- A Dragonfly Eating Another Dragonfly
- Gophers store acorns. See the video.
Weeds
- Narrow leaved miner’s lettuce, Claytonia parviflora
- Telegraphweed
- weed
- weed photos
- Panicle Willowherb
- plant id
- Telegraph Weed
- Common Spikeweed
- Pogogyne serpylloides, native mint
- Mark Mills heading out to do star thistle control
- Hypericum perforatum – Klamath weed
- Dittrichia graveolens – stinkwort
- Coyote bush
- Milkweed seed head
- weed 2
- Vinegarweed
- Pokeweed
- Fluvellin
- Dogtail Grass, Cynosurus echinatus
- Hairy Fleabane, Conyza bonariensis
- Malta Star Thistle
Wood-Destroying Organisms
- Subterranean termite drop tubes in Murphys California
- Subterranean termites using mud sheathing to encase lumber
- Hylastes bark beetles attacking wet plywood in attic
- The tiny subterranean termite collected in Dorrington
- Another collection of the unknown tiny, dark subterranean termites, from Groveland
- Western Subterranean Termites in Sonora Hills
- Powderpost beetles attacking bamboo flooring
- Insects in rotting roof beam
- Tiny Termite Swarmers from Groveland
- Tiny Subterranean Termite Swarmers
- Termite tubes in driveway
- 3-Inch Wide Subterranean Termite Tube
- Termite tubes coming up through paver stones
- Differences between General Pest (Branch 2) and Wood Destroying Organisms (Branch 3)
- Extra large subterranean termite tube
- Trevor Termite
- unknown wood destroyer
- Subterranean Termite Tubes
- Drywood Termite Damage
- Tiny Subterranean Termite Workers
- Subterranean termite tubes
Z Jim’s Photos
Z Paul Cooper
- Ceanothus Silkmoth
- Banded Garden Spider, Argiope trifasciata
- Schistocerca shoshone grasshopper
- California King Snake
- Sarcodes, or Snow Plant
- Ornate Tiger Moth, Grammia ornata
- Horsehair Worm Exiting a Jerusaleum Cricket
- Purple cortinarius
- Leaf-footed Bug
- Fly Amanita, Amanita muscaria, from Oregon
- Murphys Mushrooms
- Harvestmen, Opiliones
- Polyphemus moth
- Indian Grinding Stone State Historic Park
- Valley Oaks at Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
- Bordered Plant Bug
- Bumblebees
- Bordered Plant Bug nymphs
- Bumblebee on lavender
- Bordered Plant Bug nymph
- Swallowtail
- Paul Cooper Photo Gallery
Jim’s Blog
- DIY pest control disasters
- Controlling Mistletoe
- Pine Bark Beetle Treatment FAQs
- Verbenone, or Splat Verb, is Not Effective as a Stand-Alone Agent Against the Western Pine Beetle
- It’s not a shame to have them; it’s a shame to keep them.
- True Pests
- The Rise of the Frankenweed
- Is Delusional Parasitosis a Gluten-Related Disorder?
The Relationship Between the California Buckeye and the Fungus Eutypella aesculina
- Buckeye Branch Bumps
- Leaf Fungus on Buckeyes along Parrotts Ferry Road
- Leaf Fungus on Buckeyes Along Stockton Road, Sonora
- More photos of the ?leaf fungus?
- Leaf Fungus on California Buckeye
- The fungus Eutypella aesculina on dead branches of the California Buckeye