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

100 years of Cooperative Extension!

May 8, 2014
By Brad Hanson
Today, May 8th, marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Smith-Lever Act that resulted in the creation of Cooperative Extension.
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UC Rice Blog: Article

UCCE 100

May 7, 2014
By Luis Espino
The 2014 rice season is in full swing. Some ground is still being worked, and fields are being flooded and planted. Calls are starting to trickle in (algae, tadpole shrimp) and it's looking like it will be a challenging season. But in this blog entry I'm not going to write about rice.
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Beekeeper Brian Fishback shows students at Lake Canyon Elementary School, Galt, a frame of bees. (Photo by Beth Bartkowski)
Bug Squad: Article

Bee-ing a Part of the Solution

May 7, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
This is a story about a third-grade classroom in Galt, Calif., that loves honey bees. It's also a story about a beekeeper named Brian Fishback of Wilton who eagerly taught them to love bees. Fishback, a former volunteer at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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A crane fly lands on a stucco wall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Not a 'Mosquito Hawk'

May 6, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Some folks call them "bugsy" or "mosquito hawks" or "skeeter eaters" "flying daddy longlegs." They may look like Texas-sized mosquitoes but they're not mosquitoes. Neither do they eat mosquitoes. They're crane flies in the order Diptera, family Tipulidae. And they're found worldwide.
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A male longhorned bee, Melissodes communis, as identified by native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'Bee a Scientist' on May 8

May 5, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Get ready! It's almost time to count the pollinators! The University of California's Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) wants you set aside three minutes on Thursday, May 8 and count the pollinators wherever you live--and they live--in California.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Phytophotodermatitis, umbels and leucoderma

May 5, 2014
By Gale Perez
From the Invasive Plants in Southern California blog May 3, 2014 The Apiaceae family is a large (300+ genera worldwide) and interesting group of native plants (water hemlock, wild carrot, sanicle), weeds (fennel, poison hemlock, queen ann's lace) and important crops (carrot, celery, dill, fennel an...
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