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Los Angeles County Spring 2018 ISHB/GSOB Field Trainings Registration now open Learn how to recognize the signs of invasive shot hole borer and gold spotted oak borer infestations in native and landscape trees.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have made an important step in understanding the molecular mechanism of huanglongbing (HLB), a destructive disease that is a serious threat to the citrus industry worldwide.

Speakers that will be presenting at all three locations: Beth Grafton-Cardwell, Ph.D., Director of Lindcove REC & Research Entomologist, University of California, Riverside Melinda Klein, Ph.D.

Ambrosia beetles comprise a group of over 6,000 species in the Scolytinae subfamily. Most of these beetles typically attack decomposing and dead trees. The Polyphagous/Kuroshio Shot Borers have been reports on over 300 landscape and wildland living tree species, including avocado.

You are invited to the public webinar of the new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report A Review of the Citrus Greening Research and Development Efforts Supported by the Citrus Research and Development Foundation: Fighting a Ravaging Disease.