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From our Faith Kearns at the UC Water Institute: https://twitter.com/ucanrwater/status/543501860527550464 As great as this bath has been, we still are way behind normal.

It's great to see Jessica West, a member of Joanna Chiu's molecular genetics lab in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a member of the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology.

Check out the Geo-tagged tweets in Yosemite Valley. If you look closely you can see that people are tweeting from the top of Half-Dome, The Mist Trail, Glacier Point, and many parts of Yosemite Valley.

It is the time of the year when Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) licenses need to be renewed. I usually have enough continuing education hours to renew, but this year I fell short. A few days ago, I took the new "Pesticide Resistance" online course offered by UC IPM.

The Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB), Euwallacea sp. #1, is an invasive beetle that carries three fungi: Fusarium euwallaceae, Graphium sp. , and Acremonium sp. The adult female tunnels galleries into a wide variety of host trees, where it lays its eggs and grows the fungi.

What's that wet stuff falling from California skies? Could it be the "R" word, rain? Or what Wikipedia calls "liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitatedthat is, become heavy enough to fall under gravity?" It is.

Nobody really bats an eye when a chicken lays an egg. That's what we expect them to do. But when a butterfly lays an egg, that's a different story--especially in December.

New Pesticide Resistance Online Course with Continuing Education Units Author: Cheryl Reynolds, UC Statewide IPM Program An online course highlighting how pesticide resistance develops among pests is now available on the UC IPM Web site.

Curious about those insect-eating bats? Yolo County Farm Advisor Rachael Freeman Long, who has been researching and writing about bats for 20 years, has two colonies of bats at her ranch in Woodland.

REMINDER: 2014 Grower Meeting Wednesday, December 10, 8am-12noon Colusa Fairgrounds, Festival Hall 1303 10th Street, Colusa Continuing Education Hours - 3 laws and reg, .