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It's time for UC IPM's annual insect Easter egg hunt! Can you guess which insects laid the eggs pictured below? Some may be pests, while others may be beneficial. Leave a comment on this blog post with your guesses, or on our Facebook and Instagram posts. Answers will be posted on Monday, April 1st.

UC ANR has launched a Lands' End store for purchasing branded apparel and promotional items. Employees are invited to explore during this soft-launch phase.

A native groundcover with brilliant, red, trumpet-shaped flowers? Yes, please! When we re-landscaped our backyard a few years ago, the landscaper suggested a California fuchsia, Epilobium 'Everett's Choice,' as a groundcover in a few locations.

If you've been pruning bushes or trees, check to see if a praying mantis egg case (ootheca) is attached to a limb. If you do, you're in luck! A mantis deposits her egg case in late summer or fall, and usually on twigs, stems, a wooden stake or fence slat, but sometimes even on a clothespin.

Home grown tomatoes are the best, and easier to grow than you think. Whether you are a novice or a pro, this class will provide lots of information: How to plant from seed, how to transplant, care and maintenance, and recommendations on varieties of tomatoes.

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Do all bees live in hives? If asked, many people would say yes. You might be surprised to learn only honeybees and bumblebees are social and live in hives. The rest are solitary, with seventy percent living in the ground! Bees are pollinators.

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A gray butterfly and a fruit fly... Each has "fly" in its name but one is a member of the order Lepidoptera and the other, order Diptera. Etymology does not agree with entomology.