Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

Weed management research will take center stage at UC Davis on July 10th, when scientists, students, regulators and weed managers gather for the 58th annual Weed Day.

A recent trip to Spain was an opportunity to look at their cherimoya production practices. One of the most interesting is their ability to manage the tree through pruning to produce fruit off-season (in spring) when the prices are the highest.

What an un-bee-lievably generous gift! Debra Jamison, state regent of the California State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. loves bees. So when it came time to select a fundraising project, she knew what she wanted to do.

Adult male spotted wing drosophila. Note the dark spot on the tip of its wings. (Photo by Larry L. Strand) It's cherry growing season and a good time to begin looking for spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii.

A unique effort to raise funds to collect insects in the biodiversity hotspot of Belizewhich would result in specimens for the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, among other goals-- is galloping into the home stretch.

Beekeepers know the varroa mite as "Public Enemy No. 1.

Both the NASS Cropland Data Layer (CDL) and the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) released new versions in early 2014.

Drought impacts on salinity, nitrogen management...

Irrigation Scheduling in a Drought Year Field Meeting Final Chilling Hours Predicting Peach Harvest Sizing Peach Fruit Website Resources Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Alert 37th Annual Nickels Field Day...

The statistics are alarming. "Every 45 seconds a child in Africa dies from malaria, a disease spread by a single mosquito bite. There are more than 200 million cases of malaria each year, and nearly 1 million of those infected die from the disease most of them children under the age of five.