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Quick! Find the damselfly! This damselfly (below) is so camouflaged that it's difficult to see her.

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The hills and lawns might look green still, but the drought has hit the east bay hard. The sparkling, clean, tasty water we usually have delivered through our taps via the Mokelumne River Basin in the Sierra Nevada.

Plant Clinic, Friday April 3 from 10-3pm Griff's Feed and Seed, 7th and Fremont, Colusa Do you have questions about watering your lawn and garden during the drought? Do you have a gardening question? NEW this year. We will help you re-pot your plant.

It never got very cold this winter in spite of the freeze we had at the turn of the new year. Insects that are normally knocked back by cold weather such as scales and the formidable Asian Citrus Psyllid continued on very well, thank you.

Who wouldn't like to have a lady beetle, aka ladybug? Although they're commonly called "ladybugs," entomologists call them "lady beetles." That's because they're beetles, not bugs.

Remember Stephanie Hsia? She's the beekeeper/graduate student at Harvard's Graduate School of Design who traveled through almond orchards in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys in May 2014 to illustrate and pen a book about the spatial relationship between honey bees and almonds.

I was just speaking to a group of Certified Crop Advisors and there was some confusion about the units used by different labs to report their results, so I put together this sheet to help understand the relationship between the different terms.

Mark your calendar. If you want to learn about malaria and the exciting new research underway, be sure to set aside Friday, April 24.

toGrowing blueberries in a pot is not such a whacky idea. Along the coast, they never get as big as the Central Valley or other places where they are grown. That's because they are in almost continuous flower and fruit production.