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A truck loaded with bee hives. Image taken through a car window. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What to Do When a Bee Truck Overturns

November 12, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
When a bee truck overturns, all sorts of things can happen. None of them is good--unless both the people and the bees fare well. Bystanders panic. Bees can and do react to all the commotion by stinging the first responders and the bystanders. It's especially difficult at night.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Weed-eating Biomachines

November 12, 2015
By Julie A Finzel
Weed-Eating Biomachines: How Grazing Livestock can Help Control Invasive Weeds In any good weed control program there are some basic steps that should be followed.
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Monarch butterfly lands on the American flag. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue! (And Other Colors, Too)

November 11, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue! Today is Veterans' Day, honoring and celebrating our U.S. military veterans. When I think of Veterans' Day, I think of all my ancestors, from the Revolutionary War on down, who answered our country's call for service.
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Moment of freedom--a female monarch is released. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Mid-Life Chrysalis

November 10, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A mid-life chrysalis? Well, maybe not mid-life, but definitely out of season. A female monarch butterfly eclosed today in our little indoor butterfly habitat. Two weeks ago, we rescued the caterpillar from a narrow-leafed milkweed plant in our Vacaville pollinator garden and brought it inside.
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UC Rice Blog: Article

UC IPM online courses offer continuing education units

November 10, 2015
By Luis Espino
Are you looking for continuing education units (CEUs) to complete your renewal application this year for the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR)? The UC Statewide IPM Program has several online courses available that can help you get those last few needed credits.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

UC IPM online courses offer DPR/SPCB continuing education units

November 10, 2015
By Cheryl A Reynolds
Are you looking for continuing education units (CEUs) to complete your renewal application this year for the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR)? The UC Statewide IPM Program has several online courses available that can help you get those last few needed credits.
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IGIS: Article

2005-2015: A decade of intense innovation in mapping

November 9, 2015
By Maggi Kelly
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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Pest News: Article

UC IPM online courses offer continuing education units

November 9, 2015
Are you looking for continuing education units (CEUs) to complete your renewal application this year for the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR)? The UC Statewide IPM Program has several online courses available that can help you get those last few needed credits.
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