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Ever created Maggot Art? You pick up a maggot with a forceps, dip it into a non-toxic, water-based paint, drop it (gently) on a white paper, and let it crawl around, or guide it. Voila! Maggot Art! It's a conversation piece. It's suitable for framing.

*Results from March 2023 ISHB Monitors Training* Invasive shothole borers (ISHB) are wood boring beetles that attack many native and non-native trees in Southern California. These beetles bore tunnels into trunks and branches where they grow a fungus they use as food.

Every gardener knows that weeds are just plants in the wrong place. Webster's dictionary defines a weed as a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth; especially: one that tends to overgrow or choke out more desirable plants.

Graduated 22 new master gardeners Talented group who will bring program success Welcome to gardening challenges of the future...

Song Ci (1186-1249) of China, considered the world's first forensic entomologist, knew how to solve a crime when a villager in a rice field was found dead, slashed with a sickle. He told the villagers to line up in town square with their sickles. When they did, he immediately fingered the killer.

Gophers, Ground Squirrels, Rabbits and Voles are going to love irrigated orchards when the hillsides start drying up by UC ANR Staff Writer Burrowing rodents can cause extensive and expensive damage to orchards and crop fields.

Issue Includes: Public Workshop schedule Gardening Tips for June Merced County Fair Wed Jun 7 - Sun Jun 11. Visit our information booth inside the Floriculture building. Check out our award-winning demonstration garden just outside that building.

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Invitation to attend candidate presentations Restoration Ecology/Weed Science Advisor Serving Kern, Kings, and Tulare Counties See attached for agenda and Zoom link...

Dear Colleagues, The California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), in partnership with the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and the Fifth Assessment Team, is soliciting proposals to fund research that fills critical gaps in the scie...