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As some readers of this blog may know, I'm currently working on a research project examining livestock guardian dog behavior. The back story is this: several years ago, I was invited to demonstrate electro-net and livestock guardian dogs at a workshop on livestock protection tools.

If you should walk into the office of Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, you may not notice it at first. The desk, yes. The books, yes. The specimens, yes. Wait, what's that protective cover on the microscope? Could it be? It is.

You've probably heard it's important to read the label on a pesticide bottle, but you might not know why or what to even look for on the label.

Top-dressed organic wild rice - is it effective? Wild Rice Seed Storage: what do we know? Meet our Staff! Visit the University of California Agronomy Research & Information Center http://wildrice.ucanr.

Trim back just about anything when the flowers fade to keep the garden tidy, encourage more flowers, and prevent reseeding. UC Master Gardeners are still at the Orange County Fair ready to answer your gardening questions.

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The Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management (BSPM) department at Colorado State University is hosting the one-day Innovation in Pest Management Symposium on August 27, 2019 inFort Collins (Colorado State University.

Over the past few months, gardeners have asked the UCCE Master Gardeners for help with their grapes.

We've all seen them....garden catalogs or magazine articles with cute little bee houses hanging like birdfeeders, or entire fences made of nesting tubes for solitary bees. We even had them at the Haven -- for a while -- in the form of bee condos.

Emily Bick, who joined the doctoral program in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology in September 2015, will present her exit seminar at 3 p.m., Monday, Aug. 5 in Room 158 of Briggs Hall.