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The Bohart Museum of Entomology's 2022 calendar is one of a kind. It features Professor Lynn Kimsey's collection of funny student sentences, illustrated by Bohart associate Kris Merritt.

The newly published UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology calendar is DCI: delightful, creative and innovative! Bohart Museum director Lynn Kimsey, a UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology, said the calendar--featuring students' unusual comments on their Entomology 100 term papers and illustr...

Recently I passed some leisure time on a Word Sleuth in the Daily Republic that focused on National Flowers of Various Countries. While trying to find the listed flowers in the puzzle, I saw some that I had never heard of.

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Citrus greening disease can infect an entire tree weeks before symptoms appear Ashley Carlin American Phytopathological Society For the first time ever, scientists have been able to measure the speed of a bacterium that causes the incurable citrus greening disease.

We all encounter pests in our homes, gardens, and landscapes, but which ones are most popular in California? While we can't say for certain, website traffic to UC IPM's Pest Notes gives us a glimpse of popular pests. Here are the top ten most frequently viewed publications in 2021.

What do you do with all those Lemons? Try Salt Preserved Lemons! What to do with all of those lemons? It's that time of the year when lemon trees are loaded with juicy, yellow fruit.

Weedy rice was found in California on a large scale in 2016, over 8 counties, after having been only found in a few fields in one county prior to 2008. In 2020, University of California Cooperative Extension conducted a comprehensive survey.

DIAGNOSING A FIELD PROBLEM Can applications of Calcium (Ca) fertilizers improve plant nutrient uptake or improve soil properties in alfalfa fields? These questions were presented to us by an alfalfa grower in the Sacramento Valley of California where low soil Ca levels were observed.

Who doesn't love jumping spiders? They're adorable. No? Well, they are to arthropod enthusiasts, but not so much to their prey. This one (probably a Phidippus audax, a Bold Jumper) was moving slowly and unobtrusively up a shadowed Vacaville stucco wall on the morning of Jan. 2.