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A unique UC Davis symposium on "Saving a Bug's Life: Legal Solutions to Combat Insect Biodiversity Decline and the Sixth Mass Extinction" will bring together law and science to address insect biodiversity decline.

By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Plants are a terrific way to create a privacy screen for your garden, or to create a shady space in summer. For privacy screens, it's typically best to select plants that are evergreen.

Master Gardener and KUCI Staff Host Mark Oertel sits down with fellow MG Teena Spindler and discuss all about Heritage/Pass Along Plants. You may have inherited your family home and would never, ever consider digging up any of the beautiful plants your Mom/Grandma tended to for years.

It may be fun to grow BIG fruit. But how do you sell it? A lot of fruit like avocado and dragon fruit is sold by the piece and others like apples and navel oranges are sold by the pound. How would this be sold? reproduced from: hawaiinewsnow.

What Are the UC Ag Experts Talking About? Join the online crowd February 19, 2020 Pesticide Resistance Management of Citrus Pests Dr.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Request: We have lived in our house for 22 years in central County. Just the past few years we have been plagued by no-see-ums as the weather starts to warm.

From the UC Dry Bean blog on Jan. 30, 2020 With generous donations from seed companies and support from the California Dry Bean Advisory Board, we're working on two research projects in garbanzo beans this year.

If diversity is the spark of life, then the Bohart Museum of Entomology is fueling that spark into a full flame. The Bohart Museum, home of nearly eight million insect specimens collected worldwide, will be one of the 13 museums or collections open on Saturday, Feb.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is soliciting for applications for two programs: Healthy Soils Program (HSP) and Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP).

Given the nature of rangeland livestock production in California, some conflict with wildlife is probably inevitable. In our part of the Sierra Nevada and Sacramento Valley, grazing livestock and wildlife (including a number of predators) often occupy the same landscapes.