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Nutrition Jeopardy!

October 5, 2018
This week we kicked off Health and Safety Day at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School! Students took part in our Nutrition Jeopardy game which contained questions from the MyPlate food groups and fluids (sugary beverages).
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Citrus thrips feeding causes gray scars in a ring-pattern around the stem end of fruit. Citrus thrips will be the topic of the first live UC webinar Oct. 17.
ANR News Releases: Article

UC agriculture experts offer a webinar series with continuing education credit

October 5, 2018
By Jeannette Warnert
Continuing education credits required by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation will now be available from UC Cooperative Extension by participating in live webinars. Everybody is busy, said Beth Grafton-Cardwell, UCCE citrus entomology specialist. It's hard for people to get to meetings.
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Aster frikartii (Wonder of Staffa)
The Real Dirt: Article

Composites, Part One: Add Sun(flowers) to Your Garden

October 5, 2018
By Jeff Oster, UC Master Gardener of Butte County, October 5, 2018 The Asteraceae is a very large and widespread family of plants which includes many very common species of garden flowers, such as asters, daisies, zinnias, chrysanthemums and sunflowers.
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Noticias: Article

Una atleta en sueños que optó por investigar insectos, Carmen Gispert

October 5, 2018
By Miguel Sanchez
La entomloga mexicana, Carmen Gispert soaba en ser atleta, alcanzar alta velocidad, lograr resistencia, sentir la energa que dispara la adrenalina y algn da participar en las carreras de 110 metros con obstculos, pero sus sueos se desvanecieron cuando sus rodillas comenzaron a flaquear.
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Nutrition News in the Butte Cluster: Article

Reinforcing Nutrition and Garden Lesson Concepts with Bracelets!

October 4, 2018
Looking for fun ways to introduce and reinforce nutrition and gardening concepts? This might be just what you've been looking for! That's right, bracelets! Read below to learn how you can use bracelets to reinforce concepts learned in lessons that focus on healthy eating and gardening.
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ANR Adventures: Article

Keeping it all in perspective

October 4, 2018
By Wendy Powers
I hear that one of my colleagues who also resists homework assignments is now well ahead of me in reviewing positions.
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A Gulf Fritillary foraging on a lavender passionflower vine, genus Passiflora. This is the Gulf Frits' host plant, they lay their eggs only on Passiflora. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Red Passionflower Vine: Pretty But Poisonous?

October 4, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If want to plant a passionflower vine (Passiflora)--the host plant of Gulf Fritillary butterflies (Agraulis vanillae)--in your garden, go for the species that produce lavender or purple flowers, "not the red ones." That's what we've been told for years.
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