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Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Rodent Awareness Week

October 20, 2020
Rodent Awareness Week (October 18-24) is a campaign created by the National Pest Management Association to educate the public about the potential harm associated with rats and mice. In addition to damage to structures and property, rodents can transmit disease to other animals and humans.
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Sample photo by Evett Kilmartin.
ANR Employee News: Article

UC ANR launches photo contest

October 20, 2020
By Jeannette Warnert
Providing a new opportunity to engage with colleagues, UC ANR is launching a photography contest and calling all staff and academics to submit their best shots.
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Gaillardia and Santolina
The Backyard Gardener: Article

Start Your Own Nursery!

October 20, 2020
Some years back, I toyed with the idea of starting my own wholesale nursery business. We're not talking acres of palm trees in huge wooden planters here, just a few kinds of natives, wildflowers and grasses.
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The larvae of the alfalfa butterfly are major pests of alfalfa. This butterfly is sipping nectar from a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifolia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

The Good, the Bad and the Bugly

October 20, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The good, the bad, and the bugly... Don't miss the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology virtual open house on alfalfa and rice from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Oct. 22.
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