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Adult bed bugs are oval, wingless, about 1/5 inch long, and rusty red or mahogany in color. Photo by Dong-Hwan Choe
Healthy Communities Blog: Article

Californians get advice to stop bed bugs

November 17, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Bed bugs can hitch rides on secondhand furniture, luggage, backpacks and other personal items to invade homes and attack people. While we rest and sleep on sofas and beds, the insects come out to feed. They want to suck our blood.
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Kern County: Article

Volume 18, Fall 2020

November 17, 2020
In memoriam: George Goodall Promoting best practices for safe, economical and environmentally sound pesticide application with minimum environmental risks South American Pal Weevil: Update Lemon establishment and production costs and profitability analysis in Ventura County, 2020 Brief update on ACP...
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Cooperative Extension San Joaquin County: Article

November 2020 Field Notes Newsletter

November 17, 2020
In this issue: Second Generation Almond Tree Nitrogen Needs Following Whole Orchard Recycling Field Corn Variety Trial Phytophthora Root and Crown Rot & Paradox Canker Disease in Walnuts Fall Irrigated Pasture Management Vegetable Update...
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Under the Solano Sun: Article

November Miku

November 17, 2020
A time to be thankful for all things Nature provides Our Lives Our Families Our Friends...
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Drew Wolter (photo credit: CA Ag Today)
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Almond Board Adds Pest and Weed Expert to the Team

November 16, 2020
By Gale Perez
From the Almond Board of California's IN THE ORCHARD | Nov. 6, 2020 The Almond Board of California is excited to welcome Drew Wolter to the team as its new senior specialist in Pest Management.
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A honey bee nectars on tropical milkweed, while another bee gets ready to join her. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Honey Bees Do Love That Milkweed

November 16, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Don't tell the honey bees. They will forage where they want to--whether it's on bee balm, a dandelion or that controversial tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica.
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