Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

Lettuce harvest Cal/OSHA HEAT ADVISORY When employees work in hot conditions, employers must take special precautions in order to prevent heat illness. Heat illness can progress to heat stroke and be fatal, especially when emergency treatment is delayed.

Standing water can lead to asphyxiation ASPHYXIATION Asphyxiation is a physiological problem that may affect certain branches, whole limbs or the entire tree. Leaves wilt and may fall, the fruit withers and drops and the branches die back to a greater or lesser extent.

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The Mediterranean annual grass barb goatgrass (Aegilops triuncialis) is widely hated by land managers, and with good reason. Grazers avoid its tough, silica-rich foliage.

European earwig Wrap removed - whitewashed Tree Wraps Author - Neil O'Connell Installing tree wraps on young trees provides protection to the trunk from applications of herbicides during weed management operations.

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I know. Jumping spiders have to eat, but do they have to snag the bees? Last weekend as we were checking the lavender patch in our yard, we noticed something partially hidden--and moving--on a post. It was a jumping spider eating a honey bee.

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It boasts striking colors, but you don't want this bug anywhere near your garden. It sucks. Literally. This is a harlequin bug, Murgantia histronica, as identified by Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis.

Today's the Fourth of July and folks are splashing in their pools. So, what happens when a bee falls in? Sometimes they get lucky--if there's a human around to rescue them. And sometimes their luck extends to a floating leaf. This tiny female sweat bee, genus Halictus (probably H.