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In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we'd like to highlight some festive insects that you'll find wearing green for the holiday! Green Fruit Beetles Also known as June beetles or figeater beetles, these large, metallic green beetles are an occasional pest of ripening fruit.

If mushrooms or toadstools have suddenly appeared up in your yard, you are probably wondering why, and what you can do about them. Mushrooms, toadstools, and other fungi reproduce not by seeds, but by spores. These are microscopic, often single-cell spores, and are spread by the breeze.

When is a rose not a rose? When it is the Lenten Rose. Technically it is Helleborus x hybridus. The cup-shaped, nodding flower is thought to resemble a rose. It earned the rest of its name from when it blooms late winter until late spring, surrounding the season of Lent.

Grow what no one else is growing or stuff you'll never find in the grocery store! There is more valuable info on Tomatoes to carry over from the show a couple of weeks ago. Kay is a frequent speaker at various venues such as the Great Park in Irvine as a volunteer Master Gardener. And so is Teena.

You've probably heard someone say "I got bit by a brown recluse spider in California.

Crop Manage Workshop and In-field training: Using a pressure chamber for irrigation scheduling in trees and vines Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center April 19th, 2023 Register...

Spring into the following free webinars from the UC IPM Urban & Community Program! Held every third Thursday from 12:00-1:00pm PDT, these informative webinars will help you identify, prevent, and control pests in and around the home, garden, and landscape! April 20, 2023: Aphids, Scales, and Mealybu...

The staff employee ePerformance (evaluation) webinar recording and slide deck are available for download. See March 8 in the 2023 Timeline on the Performance Management website. Direct links to the YouTube webinar and slide deck are https://www.youtube.

My friend Ann invited me to go with her to the scion exchange in Santa Rosa. The Redwood Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers (CRFG) put together the annual event. I've heard about this event for many years but this was the first time I've attended.

Mark your calendar! A BioBlitz is set from 9 to 11 a.m., Saturday, April 29 in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden. It's being hosted by UC Davis doctoral student Grace Horne of the Department of Entomology and Nematology.