Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

Primary Image
Data 1
UC Rice Blog: Article

Dimilin for TPS control

May 18, 2017
By Luis Espino
A FIFRA Section 2(ee) Recommendation has been issued for control of tadpole shrimp (TPS) using Dimilin 2L. The recommendation states to use Dimilin two to 10 days after the field is flooded; it also states that Dimilin does not appear to control adult TPS. Dimilin is an insect growth regulator.
View Article
Bug Squad: Article

A Face Only a Mother Could Love?

May 17, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
So there we were, on Mother's Day, looking at the yet-to-bloom English lavender in our yard. And there it was, something golden staring back at us. It was showing a face that "only a mother could love"--or an entomologist or an insect enthusiast. Scathophaga stercoraria, the golden dung fly.
View Article
Primary Image
KARE’s Laura Van Der Staay working with Tulare County fourth graders who were part of the 2017 AgVentures Day at the International Ag Center in Tulare, CA, May 12, 2017.
Conservation Agriculture: Article

KARE works with 300 Tulare County Fourth Graders at 2017 AgVentures Day!

May 17, 2017
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
KARE outreach and education leader, Laura Van Der Staay, along with UCD Cooperative Extension Cropping Systems Specialist, Jeff Mitchell, had their hands full with over 300 enthusiastic Tulare County 4th graders as part of the 2017 half-day AgVentures extravaganza that was held at the International...
View Article
Bug Squad: Article

Like a Ballerina on the Dance Floor of Life

May 15, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Like a ballerina on the dance floor of life, a newly eclosed Western tiger swallowtail, Papilio rutulus, flutters from its host plant, a sycamore tree, to a crape myrtle. The yellow-and-black butterfly spreads its wings, warming its flight muscles.
View Article
Primary Image
Desert tortoise
IGIS: Article

Mapping the Mojave Desert with Drones

May 15, 2017
By Andy Lyons, Sean D Hogan
As part of our mission to test drone technology and provide mapping services to the ANR community, IGIS recently completed data collection for our largest drone mapping project to date - 3600 acres of the Mojave Desert.
View Article
Bug Squad: Article

Kate Frey: Gardening for Bees, Beauty and Diversity

May 12, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Many mothers will receive a stunning bouquet of flowers on Sunday, Mother's Day. Others will learn how to design and plant a stunning pollinator garden so they can grow--and enjoy--their own flowers. Honey bees, bumble bees and other pollinators will appreciate it, too.
View Article
Primary Image
unnamed avocado variety
Topics in Subtropics: Article

New Avocados for the Valley?

May 12, 2017
By Ben A Faber
California avocados are the best in the world. So says downtown restaurant manager Daniel Avalos in a Valley Public Radio story by reporter Ezra David Romero.
View Article
Bug Squad: Article

Crowd-Pleasing Hamilton Will Be at Dixon May Fair

May 10, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you missed seeing Hamilton, not to worry. Hamilton will be at the 142nd annual Dixon May Fair on Friday, May 12. Not the crowd-pleasing Broadway musical, but a crowd-pleasing scorpion named Hamilton, a resident of the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology.
View Article