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Milton Neil Schroth, a world-renowned plant pathologist and professor emeritus with more than three decades of service to UC Berkeley, died on Oct.11. He was 90. Schroth was born on June 25, 1933, and grew up in Southern California.

I was lucky enough to buy a small Napa house in 2008. Trees, shrubs, and a lawn dominated the large backyard. Mowing the lawn took a long time due to the rocky terrain and poor shape of the lawn. Not what I wanted to do on a Saturday. Then there was the weeding and watering.

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Trick or treat? Treat, please, says this jumping spider. It's time to jump in to help the 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day crowdunding project. It's a Super Science Day to be held Saturday, Feb. 10 on the UC Davis campus. It's a free and family friendly event.

The bumps on oak tree foliage and branches are galls caused by minute cynipid wasps, and do not harm people or the trees. Cut warm-season grasses short and over-seed with cool season grasses annual or perennial rye or fine fescue.

Open Enrollment, your opportunity to enroll in the right benefits for you, started on Oct. 26 and extends through Nov. 17, 2023, at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. Health care costs and medical plan premiums are increasing nationwide, including for UC.

At a young age, Irene Padasas UC Cooperative Extension community nutrition and health advisor for Tulare, Kings, Fresno and Madera counties saw first-hand how environmental health conditions can impact a family's choices.

Do you have an undeveloped garden area you'd like to turn into a landscape that grows native plants and supplies habitat and food for pollinators? Perhaps you'd like to do most of the work yourself, but have no idea where to start?

While walking with my dog, Bowie, this summer, during a particularly hot spell, we noticed that the street trees had thrown off an enormous quantity of bark. The bark was scattered all over the sidewalk, the street, the planting median, and front lawns.

Want to talk to a scientist about monarch butterflies? Then you'll want to attend the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, Nov. 4 from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane. Scientists will be there to answer your questions.