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lace bugs and damage
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Another Drought Hiker?

October 9, 2015
By Ben A Faber
Just when you thought you had seen as much citrus infestation as you were likely to seek, in comes Jane Delahoyde, a Pest Control Advisor in Ventura with some lace bugs on lemons. Lace bugs are pretty specific to a host species.
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Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, welcomes the crowd at the Oct. 2nd college celebration honoring recipients of the Award of Distinction. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Congratulations, 'Bugman' Jeff!

October 8, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Entomologist Jeff Smith of Rocklin, an associate at the Bohart Museum of Entomology who has saved the museum some $160,000 over a 27-year period through his volunteer service, received a well deserved "Friend of the College Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environme...
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A bee fly, genus Villa, collecting pollen on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Why Flies Are Pollinators, Too!

October 7, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Will all the pollinators please stand up! Or do a fly-by like the Blue Angels or a crawl-by like babies competing in a diaper derby. Bees--there are more than 4000 of them in North America--are the main pollinators, but don't overlook butterflies, beetles, birds, bats and moths. And flies.
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rain
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Capturing Rain

October 6, 2015
By Ben A Faber
Capturing Precipitation - How much rainfall do I need to capture? Managing precipitation to your advantage is really a three step process (Lal and Stewart, 2012).
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A lady beetle munching on an aphid while another aphid (far right) looks on. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

The Aphid Eater

October 6, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The circle of life... Monarch caterpillars feast on milkweed, their host plant. Oleander aphids feast on the juices of milkweed plants. Lady beetles, better known as ladybugs (but they're beetles, not bugs) feast on the aphids. The milkweed is the only plant that the monarch caterpillars eat.
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A wind-whipped female variegated meadowhawk, a Sympetrum corruptum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

To 'Catch' a Dragonfly

October 5, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Dragonflies are fierce predators but they are predator-shy. "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck," as the saying goes.
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leaffooted bug damage on citrus
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Another Result of the Drought

October 4, 2015
By Ben A Faber
It is possible to blame a lot of things on the Drought, and here's another one. There have been reports of damaged fruit from the leaffooted bug - Leptoglossus occidentalis, although there are other species. This is a relative of stinkbugs which we have been seeing quite a number of this year.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Grass selective herbicides, and in-furrow cover crops for strawberry

October 3, 2015
By Steven A Fennimore
Conventional strawberry producers should consider use of cereal cover-crops in the furrows of strawberry plantings. The advantages of this are improved water percolation, reduced soil erosion as well as weed suppression.
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October CloverLines

October 2, 2015
National 4-H Week begins. Open House and Achievement Awards at the Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center. Featured Club: Santa Rosa Valley.
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