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If you have peach or nectarine trees, winter is the time to spray them to prevent peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that attacks peaches and nectarines. It appears in spring, causing new leaves to become reddish, puckered and severely distorted.

Three hours of continuing education credits (including 1 hour of laws and regs) have just been approved by California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) for the 20th Annual Continuing Education Seminar for Ranchers. This free, online event will take place on December 8, 2021.

Academic Assembly Council is accepting requests for reimbursement for travel to professional society meetings being held Jan. 1 through June 30, 2022. Deadline for online submission: Friday, Dec. 10 at 5:00 p.m. (Submissions will be accepted electronically only. No exceptions.

Let the count begin! Researchers and volunteers in a three-week project headed by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation are now counting the Western monarch population at overwintering sites along the California coast. It all began Saturday.

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Our next round of Shepherd Skills Workshops will kick off with a Sheep Business Basics webinar on December 8! Well also be offering webinars and field days on small ruminant health and husbandry, pasture lambing systems, and livestock guardian dogs! Sign up for one or for all! And have a wonderful T...

As we continue in virtual and hybrid environments, UC IPM is focused on providing quality online resources with research-based pest management information.

Twenty years ago, when I was a brand-new Master Gardener, I was sometimes intimidated by the veteran Master Gardeners. They seemed so knowledgeable and would bring in armloads of cuttings from their perennials and shrubs.

If the folks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis are smiling even more than usual, that's because their UC Davis CrowdFund project resulted in 120 percent funded! In a month-long campaign, they were seeking $5000 by Oct. 31 and donors generously provided them with a total of $6000.

When praying mantis scientist Lohitashwa Lohit Garikipati, a 2019 entomology graduate of the University of California, Davis, joined a Bohart Museum of Entomology Bioblitz to Belize that summer, he returned with three M's: memories, mantids--and the makings of a publication.