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Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) has a vision for California a vision in which farmers make more money while using less water and protecting the environment.

In this issue... Super Field Day and So. Section Field Day Wrap-Ups, Fair Information, Enrollment Information, and so much more...

There's always something special going on at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus. But this Sunday, June 3, something even more special "may" occur. That's "may" because a California dogface butterfly "may" emerge from its chrysalis during the Bohart open house, set from 1 to 4 p.

The confluence of global climate change and population growth is brewing a perfect storm that threatens the availability of sufficient fresh water to grow food to feed the world by 2025, warned Colin Chartres, the director general of the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka.

If you've ever been to Angel Island or Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, you may have seen them. Bumble bees. And sometimes if you're fishing in the Bay, a bumble bee may land on your boat.

UC's Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) proposed the idea of creating a formal partnership with the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Water for Food Institute at a meeting May 29 with Water for Food executive director Roberto Lenton and senior research scientist Marc Andreini.

Don't miss the following event: The Aquatic Weed School 2012 is an intensive 2-day course focusing on issues associated with developing weed management strategies in a variety of aquatic ecosystems.

How much work does it take to get rid of a weed? Will I need to treat this population again next year? These are simple questions when managing weeds and the answer falls into a general pattern.

Ever seen honey bees engaging in washboarding? It's a behavior so named because they look as if they're scrubbing clothes on a washboard or scrubbing their home. It occurs near the entrance of the hive and only with worker bees. They go back and forth, back and forth, a kind of rocking movement.

Varroa mites, those pesky little parasites that suck the blood out of honey bees and spread multiple viruses, are now found throughout the world, except in Australia.