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Avocado Seminar - June 10. Online

May 29, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Avocado Varieties like GEM, Maluma, and Future Varieties & Rootstock Update CAS/CAC/UC Seminar Series Mary Lu Arpaia and Eric Focht of UC Riverside Botany will cover the horticultural characteristics of the Hass-like varieties - how they grow in different circumstances relative to Hass'.
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Tis the Miner Bee Season

May 29, 2020
By Ben A Faber
What a lot of bees. These are Miner or Chimney bee nests. Another type of Digger bee, these nests are from Santa Paula Canyon thanks to Nathan Lurie The hills are alive with the sound of BEE-EEZZE. And often they are found crawling on the ground, as is the case of Digger Bees.
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bombus vosnesenski Coville

Hedgerows and Pollinators

May 25, 2020
The Buzz about Hedgerows Hedgerows are an approved practice under California Department of Agriculture's Healthy Soils Grant Program. That means, growers are eligible to receive grant funding for planting hedgerows.
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Stinknet?

May 22, 2020
reposted from: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=41400 Stinking Stinknet is Spreading in Southern California.
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