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When the honey bee meets the flowering quince, the bee is "the belle of the ball." The winter ball. Suddenly the flowering quince (genus Chaenomele) transforms the bleak wintery landscape into a spring ballroom of sorts. The giddy bee is a joy to see.

Weed control in onions can be challenging. Onions have various challenges that make weed control difficult. They grow slowly early in the crop cycle and never achieve a good competitive crop canopy to suppress weeds.

Walnut Day, 2-21-13, Yuba City Walnut Pruning Field Day, 3-5-13, Nickels Soil Lab Efficient Walnut Spraying article Snake River area funding...

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Palmer amaranth is a highly competitive weed of field corn, peanut, soybean and, especially, cotton.

About those non-social bees... A good place to learn about them is at the UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 6. James Jim Cane, a research entomologist with the U.S.

Not many people know that the state insect of California is the California dogface butterfly (Zerene eurydice) or the role that schoolchildren played to attain that honor.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT University of California Allium Workgroup & California Garlic and Onion Research Advisory Board bring you the latest research results for Growers and Allied Industry California Garlic and Onion Symposium 2013 Monday, February 11, 2013 UC Cooperative Extension, Tulare County Agricu...

Bed Bugs at the Bohart? Indeed. Those attending the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on Saturday, Feb. 2, will see them--and see them feeding. The Bohart Museum of Entomology is one of six museums or educational centers on the UC Davis campus holding an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Farmers and others interested in new irrigation technologies and conservation agriculture can follow along on their computers in real time as research unfolds at the UC West Side Research and Extension Center.