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navel orange
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IRRIGATION STRESS AND EARLY-FRUIT MATURITY

May 31, 2013
By Ben A Faber
To maximize profits in the early navel orange market, growers need to have large fruit size and sufficient yellow-orange color and a high enough sugar-acid ratio to meet or exceed the legal minimum harvesting standards.
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Multiple hands at work on the mosaic ceramic panels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'Life in the Hive': Bee-utiful Art

May 30, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Its all about the bees, the garden and the art. The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program is installing mosaic ceramic panels on cement planters at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road, west of the UC Davis central campus.
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A honey bee encounters a velvety tree ant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Bee and the Ant

May 29, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Lavender. Honey bees love it. We watched a honey bee foraging on lavender blossoms last weekend, when an ant appeared on the scene. The ant? A worker of Liometopum occidentale (velvety tree ant), according to ant specialist Phil Ward, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis.
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Fran Keller photographing insects in the Mojave Desert. (Photo by Mark deVries)
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Fran Keller: Entomologist, Teacher, Artist, Author

May 28, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
When Mary Frances "Fran" Keller, doctoral candidate at the UC Davis Department of Entomology, delivers her exit seminar on Wednesday, May 29, the audience will get a glimpse of all the titles she holds.
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Honey bee covered with pollen; she is on a yellow coneflower, Echinacea paradoxa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Pollen Power

May 27, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Bees carry pollen in their pollen baskets, but that's not the only place.
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No-see-um, 70 times life size. (Illustration by Lynn Kimsey)
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No-See-Ums, But You Feel 'Em

May 24, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It happened unexpectedly. Tabatha Yang and her six-month-old son, Karoo, were sitting on their lawn last Sunday at their West Davis home, when she saw red. Literally. One minute they were enjoying the springlike weather, and the next minute his head was covered with bright red dots.
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Valentine pummelo
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'Valentine' - a new pummelo hybrid

May 24, 2013
By Ben A Faber
In the last two decades, many distinctive citrus selections have become available at retail markets in the US. These include cultivars such as 'Cara Cara' navel orange, 'Cocktail' pummelo-mandarin hybrid, 'Variegated Pink' lemon, 'Seedless Kishu' mandarin and 'Buddha's Hand' citron.
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