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The Santa Barbara’s Agricultural Commissioner’s Office is working to eradicate an infestation of Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA), Solenopsis invicta, at a property in Montecito. The infestation was confirmed to have spread by a shipment of nursery stock brought by a licensed landscaper from a wholesale nursery in Riverside County, according to the County of […]

Montecito arborist Duke McPherson says there is a “silent killer” among us, and it has the potential to take out hundreds of native trees in Montecito in the coming years, drastically changing the look of our community. Called the Shot Hole Borer, the tiny beetle, no larger than a sesame seed, bores itself deep into […]