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It's Halloween and scores of trick-or-treaters are donning monarch butterfly costumes. But they can't do justice to the living monarchs, those iconic, majestic butterflies that are always dressed in Halloween colors: black and orange.

Stick insects, also known as walking sticks, stick bugs and bug sticks because they resemble sticks, may not get any respect, but they do at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis.

Harvest Moon; Halloween Kids in Costumes; Trick or Treat Ghosts and Goblins Rule the Night...

UC scientists, students and water agency professionals took a critical look inwards and a radical look outwards when they gathered in Sacramento in October to reimagine California water.

This week, schools across the nation are celebrating Red Ribbon Week (October 23-31, 2018). This annual campaign has raised drug awareness and educated youth to participate in drug prevention activities since 1988.

The County of Orange Agricultural Commissioner's office is looking to fill multiple vacancies that require either a Pest Control Adviser License (PCA) or a Qualified Applicator Certificate (QAC).

Fall Citrus Meeting Friday, November 16 8:30 am - 1:00 pm Tulare County Agricultural Building Auditorium 4437 S. Laspina St.

The University of California prohibits discrimination or harassment of any person in any of its programs or activities. (Complete nondiscrimination policy statement can be found at http://ucanr.org/sites/anrstaff/files/107734.

Vice President Glenda Humiston hosted 50 high-level representatives from 24 countries as part of the Tenth Americas Competitiveness Exchange (ACE 10) on Innovation and Entrepreneurship tour of Northern California Oct. 21-27.

As some readers may know, I put out a quarterly newsletter (The New Foothill Rancher in Placer and Nevada Counties; The New Ranch Update in Sutter and Yuba Counties).