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"It's wasp time! This is a beewolf! Have you ever heard of beewolves? Well, neither had I until I discovered a bunch of them nectaring on Queen Anne's Lace flowers near my apartment complex! Have you noticed a pattern in the insects I post? A lot of them prey on bees.

Photos by Sabrina Williams Soil is... not dirt, of course. Many of us who have spent time in the garden know that dirt is essentially dead. Soil, on the other hand, is a living, complex ecosystem.

They will discuss important topics like proper pruning, pre-treatment for potential pests and disease, and what certain fruit require for chill hours. Learn what chill hours really means! AND learn how to store that rainwater we so desperately need to save.

Just squeezed then one out right before the end of the year. Great work here with Jeremy Murdoch from the UC Agricultural Issues Center, and some real thorough input from local strawberry growers, who once again unselfishly committed their time and knowledge to updating this vital document.

The 2022 Entomological Society of America's World of Insects Calendar is filled with amazing images and one of them is by UC Davis alumnus Ian Wright of Riverside, a field biologist and research specialist with the UC Riverside Department of Entomology. His work shows a cuckoo bee (Nomada sp.

What's not to like about the Meyer lemon? Fruit sized to fit in the smallest palm for squeezing and slicing. Juice with low acidity that's much sweeter than a Eureka lemon Attractive skin, the deep rich color of an egg yolk; its zest a spicy floral flavor.

On to the Next Phase We've reached a new phase in our effort to learn how to bond a livestock guardian dog with cattle. As we described in previous blog posts, we are learning that we need to bond Sam, our 7-month old LGD puppy, with cattle and vice versa.

December 21, 2021 A group of relatively new NRCS hires including Kareem Adeleke, Elena De La Torre, Breana Garcia, Jacob Wright, and Mikhael Kazzi received an exceptionally valuable introduction to state-of-the-art regenerative agriculture orchard management systems in a tour that was organized by A...

New research estimates economic losses due to congestion, inefficiencies Between wildfires, drought, a trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic, the last few years have been hard on California farmers.

Individual microbes often have defined relationships with their hosts that include beneficial, commensal, and pathogenic interactions.