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From a PRESS RELEASE from the USDA Office of Communications: Release No. 0227.14 Contact: Brian Mabry (202)720-4623 USDA Announces Measures to Help Farmers Diversify Weed Control Efforts WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2014 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced several steps that the U.S.

The Almond Board of California will unveil its Honey Bee Best Management Practices tomorrow (Thursday, Oct. 16) in an ongoing effort to promote and protect bee health. The board will do so by holding a press conference at 8:30 a.m.

Westward, ho! The western migration of the Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) to their overwintering sites along the California coast is underway.

California Ag Today's Patrick Cavanaugh interviews aquatic weed experts John Madsen (USDA-ARS Exotic & Invasive Weeds Research Unit) and Mike Blankinship (Blankinship & Associates.) Click links below. http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCDWeedScience/blogfiles/25335.mp3 (audio) http://californiaagtoday.

A quick post today to share a link to the recently revised "UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines for Olive" (UC ANR Publication #3452). You can download the whole document as a pdf here, or use it online at the above link.

Honey bees and the Blue Angels... Honey bees sometimes seem to fly in formation over such plants as flowering artichokes, but their precision--if you could call it that--never matches that of the Blue Angels. For one, the pollen-packing bees are wobbly and bump into one another.

For the past several months IGIS has been working on a Geospatial Staff Development Plan (Plan) for UC-ANR in collaboration with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) - the industry leader in GIS technology.

She described it to a "T." That would be "T" for territorial. Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis, spotlighted the European wool carder bee in her current edition of the Bohart Museum Society newsletter. The males are aggressive.

UCCE Position Announcement If you've ever wished you could be a weed scientist with the University of California Cooperative Extension system (and really, who among us hasn't wished that?

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