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Why Wild Bees Are in Trouble

December 21, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Our nation's wild bees--which include bumble bees, squash bees and leafcutter bees--are in trouble. A newly published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals just how much trouble.
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IGIS: Article

GIS Day Wrap Up (a bit late...)

December 20, 2015
By Maggi Kelly
Panel of mapping innovators @ GIS Day 2015 The GIF began in November 2015 on a wave of excitement around geospatial technology. In the months leading up to our first GIS Day in 2005, Google Maps launched, then went mobile; Google Earth launched in the summer; and NASA Blue Marble arrived.
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

S. California Can Grow Just About Anything including avocado and citrus

December 20, 2015
By Ben A Faber
It seems the world is attacked on all sides, including the iconic citrus and avocado industries in California. Aside from the other agricultural issues all growers have of water, labor, costs, weather, family, you name it, citrus and avocado growers have particular problems.
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Santa Is a Robber Fly

December 18, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Santa may be a jolly ol' elf who gives away presents, but he is also a robber fly. Take it from UC Davis entomology student Wade Spencer. Spencer decided to create a Bohart Museum of Entomology Christmas card--an insect version--and sure enough, Santa is a robber fly.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Mesotrione for weed control in orchards

December 18, 2015
By Brad Hanson
March 16, 2016. Editor's note. I recently was informed of an error in the chart Lynn included in this post from December 2018. While Broadworks (ai = mesotrione) herbicide IS registered in several stonefruit crops, it is NOT currently registered for use in peach. This was entirely my error.
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Pomegranates with a Black Heart

December 18, 2015
By Ben A Faber
Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a specialty crop now grown on more than 10,000 acres in California. Pomegranate production has increased for both fresh market and juice in the last several years, and with this increase, random internally rotted fruit has become more noticed.
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Tiny/Tim Not Long for This World

December 17, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was bound to happen. Not all monarch butterflies that you rear will make it. Such was this case this week with when two monarchs eclosed, both crippled and struggling to survive.
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A Force Awakened and to Be Reckoned With

December 16, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Moviegoers are anxious to see the long-awaited "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," which officially opens Dec. 18. But the Linnaean Games are also a force to be reckoned with-- for those who study insect science or who want to study insect science.
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Citrus Tasting at Lindcove

December 16, 2015
By Ben A Faber
Well it came again, the Citrus Tasting at Lindcove Research and Education Center in Lemon Grove near Exeter, close to Visalia and just down the road from Fresno and up from Tulare. They came, growers to see and taste new and old varieties.
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