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This is the giant water bath created from a leftover evaporative cooler from the Michael Parrella lab.
Bug Squad: Article

Emily Bick: Salinity, the Water Hyacinth and a Weevil

August 12, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If that heavy growth of water hyacinth in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in central California alarms you, then you'll want to read a newly published research paper that provides the most thorough look at how salinity impacts the invasive plant and its biological control agent, the weevil Neocheti...
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Green fruit beetle (Credit: Jack Kelly Clark)
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Green Fruit Beetles or Japanese Beetles?

August 12, 2020
We've had many reports in the last two weeks from people asking what those big green, buzzing, beetles are. Green fruit beetles (Cotinis mutabilis) are members of the scarab beetle family and are sometimes known as fig beetles or figeater beetles. They are related to green June beetles (C.
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UC ANR COVID-19 Update: flu vaccine and COVID-19 leave options

August 12, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
New flu vaccine requirement To support the health and well-being of UC students, faculty and staff and our communities, the University of California, in consultation with UC Health leadership, has issued a systemwide executive order requiring all members of the UC community to receive an influenza i...
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Black plastic tarps provide weed control

Grower Profile #4: Mary Jean Russell, Pickalittle Farms

August 12, 2020
By Kristian M Salgado-Jacobo
Practices: Occultation, cover crops, compost, field borders, reduced tillage, companion planting, crop rotation Mary Jean Russell runs Pickalittle Farm, a diversified vegetable operation in Bakersfield, CA. She provides organically-grown vegetables and herbs to local restaurants and to CSA members.
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Figure 1: Branched broomrape infestation in a processing tomato field in California.
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Getting familiar with branched broomrape: a parasitic weed in California processing tomato

August 12, 2020
By Brad Hanson
Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa), a weedy parasitic plant that can cause devastating damage to many economically important wide range of broadleaf crops including tomato, cabbage, potato, eggplant, carrot, pepper, beans, celery, peanut and sunflower has recently re-emerged in fields in Centra...
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Ranching in the Sierra Foothills: Article

Summer 2020: Ranching during a Pandemic

August 12, 2020
By Daniel K Macon
Can any of us remember a summer like this?! The work of ranching continues - irrigating pasture, checking livestock, preparing for calving or breeding season. And yet the COVID-19 pandemic casts a pall over everything we're doing.
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