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UC Rice Blog: Article

Tadpole shrimp clicker survey results

February 22, 2017
By Luis Espino
During our Jan 2017 winter meetings, I conducted a short clicker survey about how bad tadpole shrimp (TPS) has become in the past few years. There were a couple of technical difficulties, and attendees to the Richvale meeting didn't get to see the answer to the questions.
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A Story No One Is Letting Robert Washino Forget

February 22, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's a story that no one is letting him forget. Noted medical entomologist Robert "Bob" Washino, emeritus professor of entomology and a veteran academic administrator at UC Davis, was hanging out in his back yard in Davis last spring when an aedine mosquito bit him.
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UC Small Grains Blog: Article

California Small Grains Survey - Please Participate!

February 22, 2017
By Mark E Lundy
We need your help to better understand the current status of small grain production in California and how to focus our research and extension efforts moving forward. If you are involved in the California grain industry, we would appreciate your participation in the survey at this link: https://www.
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Highly Successful Biodiversity Museum Day

February 21, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
They saw bugs. They saw bones. They saw honey bees. They saw hawks. Those were just a few of the offering at the sixth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held Saturday, Feb. 18. More than 3000 visitors checked out the offerings. The free family-friendly, science-based event, held from 9 a.m.
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Elderberry as a New Crop

February 21, 2017
By Ben A Faber
An increasingly sought after health product are the fruit and flowers of elderberry Sambucus mexicana. It is a nutraceutical which has more antioxidants than other dark fruit like blackberry and pomegranate. It's a California native, but it is estimated there may 30 species worldwide.
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UCCE Weed Advisor Pratap Devkota practices flying a drone
IGIS: Article

Drone Technology Workshop at Desert Research Extension Center Crosses Borders

February 21, 2017
By Andy Lyons, Sean D Hogan
Earlier this month, IGIS held another two-day workshop on using drones for agriculture and land management. As with previous workshops, the material included drone technology, safety and regulations, principles of remote sensing, mission planning, flight operations, and data analysis.
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KUIC Meets the Entomologists and Coco McFluffin

February 17, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was a buggy, sweet kind of day when KUIC Radio 95.3 hosted a coffee break for the Bohart Museum of Entomology and its parent organization, the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Herbicide resistant weeds in California

February 17, 2017
By Steven A Fennimore
Dear Weed Managers Wednesday Feb. 15 of this week the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) hosted a 4 hour listening session at the Tulare UCCE office conference room. In attendance were growers, consultants, ag industry personnel and university extension personnel.
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