Ongoing research

UC 4-H Program of Tuolumne County: Article

June Tooter 2021

May 28, 2021
In this issue: - Club news - Record Book Time Line - Mother Lode Livestock Schedule...
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Ventura County 4-H: Article

Inside a Presenter’s Journey to State Field Day in a COVID Year

May 28, 2021
Inside a Presenter's Journey to State Field Day in a COVID Year By Ashley Pyler, Teen Leader, Record Books & Presentation Project As someone who has consistently participated in 4-H Presentations for the past 5 years, I can be the first to testify to the fact that participating in Presentations can...
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finger lime plant
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Finger Limes?

May 28, 2021
By Ben A Faber
Trent Blare (tblare@ufl.edu), Assistant Professor in Food Resource Economics, University of Florida. There has been growing hype around finger limes from citrus growers, the retail sector, and their customers.
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A territorial bee, a male Melissodes agilis, confronts a monarch butterfly in a Vacaville, Calif. pollinator garden. The prize relinquished: a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

A Tiff on the Tithonia

May 27, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was July 3, 2020. The male bees, Melissodes agilis, were getting quite territorial. Every time a butterfly, a honey bee or another insect in our family's pollinator garden expressed an interest in foraging on the Mexican sunflowers, Tithonia rotundifola, a male Melissodes buzzed them.
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