Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

Back to Sites & Content

Newsletters

 Newsletter Articles:

May 2025Archived
Field picture submitted by Elizabeth Fichtner

 Links

Publications

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

Don't miss the Medusahead and Barb Goatgrass Forum

October 30, 2013
By Gale Perez
Don't miss the Medusahead and Barb Goatgrass Forum on Nov. 5, 2013 at the UC Sierra Foothill Research & Extension Center (SFREC) in Browns Valley, CA. THE EVENT IS FREE! CLICK HERE for the agenda.
View Article
Norm Gary in his bee suit. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

What Will It Bee?

October 29, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
What will it be? Wear bees or eat insects? Lets do both! UC ANR Vice-President Barbara Allen-Diaz promises to wear beeshoney beesif she can raise $2500 by Thursday, Oct. 31 for the UC Promise for Education, a fundraising project to help needy UC students. See her promise page to donate.
View Article
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

First pesticide-residue-free certification appears on lettuce labels

October 29, 2013
By Gale Perez
[Packaging Digest 10 Oct 2013] United States produce industry leader, Tanimura & Antle has had its greenhouse grown butter lettuce independently certified as Pesticide Residue Free.? Lettuce packages will feature a new certification mark alerting shoppers to this unique product benefit.
View Article
crippled Gulf Fritillary butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

We're Not Perfect

October 28, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We're not perfect. Mother Nature isn't, either. For several weeks, we've been rearing Gulf Fritilliary butterflies (Agraulis vanillae).
View Article
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Continuing Education Courses Available from UC IPM

October 28, 2013
By Cheryl A Reynolds
If you find yourself needing a few continuing education units (CEUs) to renew your DPR QAL, QAC, or PCA license as the year draws to a close, take UC IPMs online courses on pesticide application methods and preventing pesticide runoff in urban areas for landscape and structural pest management profe...
View Article
seedy citrus
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Seedy Citrus

October 28, 2013
By Ben A Faber
Travel can be enlightening. In Turkey I learned that sour orange rootstock is routinely used with lemon and mandarin scions without any fear of tristeza virus, a formidable disease of oranges.
View Article
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

CE Specialist Tom Lanini retires after 27 years at UC Davis

October 28, 2013
By Gale Perez
Tom Lanini is a fisherman first and foremost. Yet since 1978 he has devoted his time and energy to being a Cooperative Extension specialist at UC Davis, fighting the weeds that plague farmers across California.
View Article
A drone fly heads for a Sparkle and Shine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Sparkle and Shine!

October 25, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Poet Gertrude Stein, who coined "A rose is a rose is a rose," probably would have liked it. Julia Child, maybe not.
View Article
mandarin
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Citrus Rootstock Trial

October 25, 2013
By Ben A Faber
'Bitters', 'Carpenter' and 'Furr' trifoliate hybrids are three new citrus rootstocks released in August 2009 by the University of California Riverside. These three rootstocks are hybrids of Sunki mandarin x Swingle trifoliate orange.
View Article
This Western bumble bee was found on Mt. Shasta on Aug. 15, 2012. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Western Bumble Bee Making a Comeback

October 24, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Incredible. Absolutely incredible. The Western bumble bee (Bombus occidentalis) seems to be making a comeback of sorts in some parts of the West. Reporter Michelle Nijhuis, in an Oct.
View Article