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HONEY BEE forages in a nectarine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Pollen Power

February 28, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Cool temperatures and honey bees do not a good team make. Since honey bees don't forage until temperatures hit 50 to 55 degrees, we haven't seen many bees gathering pollen from our nectarine trees. If you love nectarines, there's a lot to love.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Calculating Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) from herbicides

February 27, 2011
By Brad Hanson
Earlier this month, I attended the 2011 Plant and Soil Conference which was held in Fresno this year. This annual meeting put on by the California Chapter of the American Society of Agronomy (http://calasa.ucdavis.
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HOVER FLY foraging on cape mallow at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis. The haven is known as a half-acre "bee friendly garden," but it's also a "pollinator-friendly garden." Located on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus, it is open year-around from dawn to dusk. Admission is free.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Around the Cape

February 25, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's not just honey bees that forage among the cape mallows in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis. The brilliant magenta flowers also draw assorted other insects. Such as flies...hover flies.
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ALMOND ORCHARD in Dixon, Calif. shows rows and rows of popcornlike blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Closer, Closer, Closer

February 24, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
No thanks to the recent storms, almond orchards are encountering Nature's Extreme Makeover--from fluffy popcorn blossoms to tattered petals reminiscent of bottom-of-the-bag kernels. Still, there's something spectacular about driving down a rural road in Dixon, Calif.
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Colusa County: Article

March 2011

February 24, 2011
New Date - Rabbit and Poultry Field Day, Camp Tehama Dates, WHY Conference t-shirt logo design contest, and Livestock Skill-A-Thon information...
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