- Author: Jeannette Warnert
When the weather is hot outside, pests are likely to search for cool, sheltered areas – such as inside your home. But that doesn't mean it's time to spray pesticides.
Cockroaches, ants and flies are three common outdoor pests that will enter homes when they have the opportunity, said UC Cooperative Extension urban integrated pest management (IPM) advisor Andrew Sutherland.
Oriental cockroaches, usually black or dark brown, are found throughout the U.S. They live and breed in dark, damp outdoor locations. Reddish-brown Turkestan cockroaches, originally from central Asia, are now well established in California. They live outside eating decaying plant and animal matter, finding safe harbor in water meter, irrigation...
Nutrition Policy Institute Director Dr. Lorrene Ritchie presents at the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, SNEB, 2024 international conference. This year's international conference, themed “Understanding Foodways: Learning, Growing, and Sustaining,” will highlight the reasons why we eat the foods we eat and the impacts of those choices on ourselves and our communities.The SNEB conference takes place at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and through a virtual livestream from July 29th through August 1st, 2024. Lorrene Ritchie participates in a session on August 1, 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET titled “Food Waste Reduction Efforts: The Intersection of Food Ways, Climate Change, and Human Health,” along with...
- Author: Nanelle Jones-Sullivan
The victims:
In late June, wilting was observed above one stem near the top of the tomato plant. On closer inspection, a hole was bored below the wilting in a single stem and a hole in a nearby tomato.
The autopsy:
Evidence of tunneling and “frass” or caterpillar waste.
The suspects:
- Author: Ben A Faber
Farm Advisor UCCE Ventura County
Plants, therefore avocados, go through different growth stages, so called phenological stages, regular periods where they grow and differentiate from seed to various vegetative stages, flowering and finally seed production. Avocado has a preset pattern of phenology that occurs depending on variety and where it is grown, driven by light, temperature, water availability and often by different stresses, such as cold, heat, and heavy or light crop load.
The successive stages of avocado phenology are demonstrated in the photomontage below, from bud break to harvestable fruit:
Main phenological growth stages of ‘Hass' avocado according to...