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For those of you qualified and interested in working for UC Cooperative Extension in one of the most intensive and interesting agricultural regions in the world, the application period is still open for Plant Pathology Farm Advisor for Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties.

This garden column provides information on home, garden and landscape problems. It was created by Frank Laemmlen Ph.D., Farm Advisor Emeritus in the Santa Barbara County Cooperative Extension Office.

In 2018, the Camp Fire destroyed nearly 19,000 structures in Northern California, including most of the town of Paradise.

Las cabras curiosas se arremolinaban alrededor de los estudiantes de primaria que llevaban tapabocas y rastrillaban los establos.

If you've ever tried to photograph male long-horned bees, Melissodes agilis, you know how fast they can fly and how quick they can dart. They fly even faster when they're chasing the females of their species. It was the last day of June.

Our research on Argentine ant IPM was published in August 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Entomology (JEE). Choe, D.-H., J.-W. Tay, K. Campbell, H. Park, L. Greenberg, and M. K. Rust. 2021.

Join the workshop to understand and protect your forests by developing a Forest Management Plan.

Ahh the Plume Moth. How often do people walk by this little moth and wondered what it is or not see it at all? This moth has a distinctive T shaped body. They have long legs and usually with spines at their joints. Their unusual modified wings are interesting, and look like the wings of an airplane.

As the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic hit communities across the U.S. in mid-March 2020, the policy team at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Nutrition Policy Institute received an urgent email from a longtime partner in the San Joaquin Valley.

In the 5 years I've been with UCCE, I have received a few recurring weed-related questions. I've certainly had some unique requests, like how to deal with fig trees invading a livestock water pipeline, or whether filaree might be harmful to guinea pigs (it isn't).