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Female leafcutting bee, Megachile gemula, on rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

An Uncommon Bee

May 21, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Sometimes you get lucky. While watching floral visitors foraging last week in our rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora), we noticed a tiny black bee, something we'd never seen before.
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Fork-tailed bush katydid on salvia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Katydid, Katy Didn't

May 18, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
My late father, who called me "Katydid," loved poetry. Decades after he passed, a cousin gave me a set of his books from his childhood home. One was "The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes," published in 1899 by T. Y. Crowell and Company. In it is a poem, "To an Insect," and it's about katydids.
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The UC West Side Research and Extension Center in Five Points the site of conservation agriculture research.
Conservation Agriculture: Article

2012 research update

May 18, 2012
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
A brief update here on recent progress and implementation activities related to our 2012 overhead / drip cotton and tomato fields. 2012 Tomatoes The processing tomato variety N6397 was transplanted on April 30. Virtually daily crop growth and development. Sampling is now being done.
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Honey bee nearly collides with a ladybug, aka ladybeetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

A Pomegranate Kind of Day

May 17, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was a pomegranate kind of day. Red, bright and wonderful. The papery-thin reddish blossoms in our yard draw both beneficial and pestiferous insects. Honey bees are there for the pollen and nectar; ladybugs are there for the pesky aphids.
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Dry Root Rot. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark.

Dry Root Rot of Citrus Orchards

May 16, 2012
Dry root rot has been a problem in citrus orchards for many years. Although generally a problem in coastal and northern California counties it has been reported in other citrus producing areas of the state.
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Honey bee slides into a a violet trumpet vine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Sounding the Trumpet (Vine)

May 15, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you're looking for a good bee plant that offers a little bit of an obstacle, try the violet trumpet vine (Clytostoma calystegioides). It's one of the UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars.
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Honey bees gather around a hummingbird feeder. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Red Alert!

May 14, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Our yard is filled with such bee friendly plants as salvia, lavender, catmint and rock purslane. Lately, however, the honey bees have taken a liking to the sugar-water mixture from our hummingbird feeder.
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