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Honey bees will be "all the buzz" next week when the California State Beekeepers' Association (CSBA) meets Nov. 18-20 in Valencia, Calif., and the Entomological Society of America (ESA) meets Nov. 16-19 in Portland, Ore.

One of our collaborators on the Sonoma Vegetation Mapping Project has sent work on how web mapping and high resolution imagery has helped them do their job well. These are specific comments, but might be more generally applicable to other mapping and conservation arenas.

Take a photo of a bee--any bee--and then look it up in the newly published California Bees and Blooms: A Guide for Gardeners and Naturalists (Heyday).

The UCCE Master Gardeners of Colusa County are looking to serve you better. We would like to know what workshops you would like to attend. Please fill out the survey. All participants will be entered into a drawing for a set of Landscape Pest ID cards. The deadline is Friday December 12.

University of CaliforniaRiverside (UCR) Distinguished Professor of Soil Physics and Soil Physicist Emeritus John Letey, Jr. passed away on 14 September. He was 81 years old. He received his B.S. degree at Colorado State University and Ph.D. degree at the University of Illinois.

It's cool how honey bees and syrphid flies gravitate toward the Iceland Poppy. It's a winter plant, and frankly, there isn't much to eat out there. The Iceland Poppy (Papaver nudicaule), a bowl-shaped, papery flower, fills the bill. The name is a misnomer. It's not native to Iceland.

You can make a meal out of mealworms. It's cricket to eat Cambodian crickets. And who wouldn't want a plate of teriyaki grasshopper kebobs paired with Rubicon Angus Scottish Ale? "Don't worry, be hoppy," said celebrity bug chef David George Gordon, author of the award-winning Eat-a-Bug cookbook.

Position announcement for a Weed Science Extension Educator with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Former UC Davis Chancellor James Henry Meyer (1922-2002) would have been proud.

Adult spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula). Source http://hojae.net/520. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently reported the first detection of yet another invasive hemipteran pest in the US.