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Our partnership with Stanislaus County Library continues! The librarians have been so helpful and welcoming, and attendees are saying great things about our Master Gardener instructors.

Entomologist Brennen Dyer, a laboratory assistant and a highly praised jack-of-all-trades at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, is a winner in the eyes of faculty and colleagues, and now he's a winner in the eyes of UC Davis Staff Assembly officials.

A highly controlled clinical study in Iquitos, Peru shows that a spatial repellent used as an intervention tool significantly lowered the risk of virus transmission by the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, according to a team of 25 international scientists, including UC Distinguished Professor T...

What do University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources and the sports entertainment reality television show, American Ninja Warrior, (ANW) have in common?

Check out the new citrus pest guide at UC-Integrated Pest Management - https://www2.ipm.ucanr.

California is host to almost 7000 species of native plants, more than any other state. About 40% of those species are found only in California. In fact, California is more species-rich than most other places on Earth.

Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just 3 of these rice, wheat, and corn provide 50 percent of all our calories.

The new El Dorado/Amador Prescribed Burn association, formed in August 2021, has conducted several burns with private landowners and received funding for a part-time coordinator.

It definitely wasn't a case of "brotherly love" when a predator--maybe a bird or a praying mantis--grabbed the California Sister in our pollinator garden. The butterfly, Adelpha bredowii californica, didn't survive.

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