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As we continue in virtual and hybrid environments, UC IPM is focused on providing quality online resources with research-based pest management information.

Twenty years ago, when I was a brand-new Master Gardener, I was sometimes intimidated by the veteran Master Gardeners. They seemed so knowledgeable and would bring in armloads of cuttings from their perennials and shrubs.

If the folks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis are smiling even more than usual, that's because their UC Davis CrowdFund project resulted in 120 percent funded! In a month-long campaign, they were seeking $5000 by Oct. 31 and donors generously provided them with a total of $6000.

When praying mantis scientist Lohitashwa Lohit Garikipati, a 2019 entomology graduate of the University of California, Davis, joined a Bohart Museum of Entomology Bioblitz to Belize that summer, he returned with three M's: memories, mantids--and the makings of a publication.

Every year, I buy at least one new lavender (Lavandula sp.) plant. Each year, I kill at least one. Many years ago, before I moved to this house, I took cuttings of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) and rooted them.

The Nutrition Policy Institute welcomed Caroline Long to the team on October 14, 2021 as a project policy analyst. Long graduated in May 2021 from UC Berkeley with a master in public health nutrition and a graduate certificate in food systems.

Food Safety Update-Holiday Food Safety...

Each fall my Gravenstein apple gets a small patch of fluffy exudate on the bark at the base of the tree. These are caused by woolly apple aphids, Eriosoma lanigerum. I hose them off with a jet of water which is usually the end of the problem.

Listen to our November podcast about bulbs on radiocolusa.

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