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Field Finds: Fungus Among Us Siomara Zendejas, Ventura County UCCE SRA I stumbled upon this delightful find while doing some field work in an avocado orchard. The light coming in through the canopy made it very easy to spot the branch among the leaf litter.

USDA-APHIS Approves New Fuller Rose Beetle Mitigation a Voluntary Option to Reduce Pesticide Applications By Sandipa Gautam, Area Citrus IPM Advisor UCCE James R Cranney, President CCQC At the request of the California Citrus Quality Council (CCQC) USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...

There have been many, many questions over the past few weeks about why so many strawberry flowers are aborting in addition to a noticeable uptick in crooked, mis-shapen fruit.

As tomato growers, we might consider any ailing tomato to have a disease. That would end up making this blog post really, really long.

The spring blooms are gone. Summer in my garden never had the colorful pleasing look of spring blooms. But when it comes to the bounty from the garden, we're just beginning to see the fruits of my labor. The most delicious cherries came and went. The serviceberry, a.k.a.

Hales begins as new AVP at UC ANR Brent Hales joined UC ANR as the new associate vice president for research and Cooperative Extension on July 3. Hales brings over 20 years of higher education research and leadership experience, including at land grant institutions and in Cooperative Extension.

Undergraduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities visit UC for summer session Na'Zyia Dowdy-Arnold and Destinee S.

In early 2008 I was watching the news on television. The economy had started its decline and the story concerned a woman in Pennsylvania who had been laid off from her job. She was filmed pushing a shopping cart out of a grocery store and was asked what she had purchased with her final paycheck.

July steeped us in some record high temperatures which led me to do some deep thinking in front of fans and out on the lakes with my kayak. Manzanita Lae Lassen National Forest I have been thinking and starting to research about the impact of curiosity in the workplace.

When the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosted an open house, "An Evening at the Museum," on Saturday, July 22, showcasing moths and flies, the moth experts were there to celebrate National Moth Week, July 22-30 and the fly experts had just attended the 10th International Dipterology Congress, held Jul...