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Honey bee nectaring on tower of jewels, Echium wilpretii. This is a non-native, but isn't it pretty? The California Master Beekeeper Program is offering a class on "Planning Year-Round Native Plant Pollinator Garden" on Nov. 17. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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CAMBP Classes on Pollinator Gardens and Apiary Technology

November 12, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Like to learn about planning a year-round native pollinator garden or about technology in the apiary? The California Master Beekeeper Program (CAMBP) has announced its last two classes of 2024. One is a three-hour course, Planning Year-Round Native Plant Pollinator Garden from 9 a.m.
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Meet Michael: Community Education Specialist

November 12, 2024
By Michael Jaquez
Michael Jaquez is one of our newer Community Education Specialist with the Climate Smart Agriculture team at University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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4-H Leader's Council Meeting November 19, 2024

November 12, 2024
Dear members of the Monterey County 4-H Leaders Council, On Tuesday, November 19th, the 4-H Leaders Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7pm. The location will be in the large Conference room, 1432 Abbott Street.
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Samuel Davidson Laughlin, shown here at his home in Castle Rock, Wash., contracted malaria when he was a color bearer for the Union Army during the Siege of Vicksburg.
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Mosquitoes, Malaria and the Civil War

November 11, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Not many Americans think about mosquitoes and malaria on Nov. 11, Veterans' Day. But they should. The mosquito played a major adversarial role in our nation's Civil War. Some 30,000 soldiers died of malaria, and more than half of the 2.
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Wild Fire and Soil

November 11, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Low-severity wildland fires and prescribed burns have long been presumed by scientists and resource managers to be harmless to soils, but this may not be the case, new research shows.
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The UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) will be selling its member-designed t-shirts at the ESA meeting in Phoenix. Iris Quayle (left) of the Jason Bond lab, and Mia Lippey of the Meineke lab, will be giving presentations and also staffing the EGSA table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Why Phoenix Is the Place to Be Nov. 10-13

November 8, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Phoenix is the place to be Nov. 10-13. That's the site of the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting, with thousands of entomologists descending upon the city and the Phoenix Convention Center (PCC). And UC Davis entomologists will be an important part of it.
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Our bush above was approximately 6 feet wide by 3.5 feet tall. photo by Cindy Yee
Under the Solano Sun: Article

Goodbye to My Gorgeous Invasive Plant

November 8, 2024
We had this innocent-looking large bush in our front yard for probably 20 years. It had drip irrigation, but maybe that wasn't enough because as our area became drier and hotter with climate change, the bush stopped flowering.
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Rosie’s Corner: If you don't have a yard, grow roses in a pot

November 8, 2024
It's a time of transition for the weather and daylight (back to standard time. Sigh, I like the later sunsets). Mother Nature is giving us a break from the awful heat we had this summer. However, forecasters predict a warmer and drier month than normal.
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Harvest fall foliage and vegetables to make an autumn centerpiece. (Photo: PickPic)
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This week in the garden: Nov. 8 - 14

November 8, 2024
Create a visual feast with pomegranates, miniature pumpkins, Indian corn, gourds, fall flowers, and herbs from your garden. Tasks The tuberous roots of sweet potatoes will be ruined if the foliage is damaged by frost. Harvest before freezing temperatures kill the vines. Use fall leaves as mulch.
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