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Pest Notes
- Olive Knot
- Black Scale
UC Pest Management Guidelines (UC Statewide IPM Project Web Site)
UC Cooperative Extension Cost and Return Studies
- Almonds
  Double Line Drip Irrigation. Southern San Joaquin Valley. 2016 PDF
- Almonds
  Flood Irrigated. San Joaquin Valley North. 2011. PDF
- Almonds
  Micro-sprinkler. San Joaquin Valley North. 2016. PDF
- Olive Oil
  Super High Density. San Joaquin Valley 2007. PDF
- Olives - San Joaquin Valley. 2005 PDF
- Pecans - Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley - 2005. PDF
- Pistachios
  Low Volume Irrigation - San Joaquin Valley South. 2015. PDF
- Walnuts
  Late Leafing - Lateral Bearing. San Joaquin Valley North. 2017. PDF
- Walnuts
  Micro-Sprinkler Irrigation - San Joaquin Valley North. 2007 PDF

Brazilian waterweed (Egeria densa) growing in a 40-gallon mesocosm at the USDA Aquatic Weed Research Facility, Davis. Photo by Christy Morgan, USDA.

UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Looking for the right herbicide for Egeria

July 6, 2018

By Guy Kyser

We are doing a trial of eleven aquatic herbicides for their potential to control Brazilian waterweed (Egeria densa).

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BLP's in OC: Article

FREE App to help 'Save Our Citrus'

July 6, 2018

By Tamara J Majcherek

Help save California citrus by identifying and reporting the four leading citrus diseases: citrus greening, citrus black spot, citrus canker, and sweet orange scab using the free app from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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News from UC ANR South Coast REC and Beyond: Article

FREE App to help 'Save Our Citrus'

July 6, 2018

By Tamara J Majcherek

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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Avocado Fair! Yeah!

July 6, 2018

By Ben A Faber

Presented by California Avocado Society, Inc.

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Napa Master Gardener Column: Article

Pocket Garden Hints from Hawaii.

July 6, 2018

By Okhoo Hanes, U. C. Master Gardener of Napa County The Big Island of Hawaii has captured media attention lately with the spectacular Kilauea volcano eruptions and magma flowing into the Pacific Ocean.

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Standing in front of the blacklighting, Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas talks to moth enthusiasts at the 2017 Bohart Museum of Entomology Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bug Squad: Article

Bohart Museum Open House: Let's Celebrate Moths!

July 5, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

National Moth Week, July 21-29, celebrates the beauty, life cycles and habitats of moths. What's not to celebrate? And you can do so at the University of California, Davis.

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UC Davis professor Diane Ullman has received a Fulbright to France to study plant-insect interactions. This image is of her in Saint-Enimie, which is in the Lozère department in southern France ("Departments" in France are comparable to "counties" in the United States.) This site is a few hours north of Langedoc, where she will be working.

Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Diane Ullman Receives Fulbright Scholarship; Off to France to Research Plant Virus-Insect Interactions

July 5, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

UC Davis entomology professor Diane Ullman is off to France in November but it's not a dream vacation. It's a dream opportunity: a Fulbright-funded scholarship to research plant virus-insect interactions. She will be studying plant viruses and the insects that transmit them.

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Kern County: Article