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The honey bees love it. So do the long-horned bees, bumble bees, carpenter bees, European paper wasps, syrphid flies, butterflies, blister beetles, spotted cucumber beetles, crab spiders, praying mantids, and assorted other insects.

The UCCE Rice Team has developed a series of Factsheets to simplify and convey information about important topics that we find we are frequently discussing with growers and PCA's. Each fact sheet is 2 pages long, back to front.

I am excited to announce that the 2020 Master Gardener Program class has graduated! This year it was an unpredictable journey that I'd like to share with you. Our dedicated group of trainees began an intensive learning program in January, meeting each week for 4 hours.

Yes, mow it! Mowing works to at least prevent seed spread and regular mowing will weaken rhizomes. Seed establishment has the greatest potential for the establishment and spread of johnsongrass and must be prevented. Therefore, mowing works to at least prevent seed spread.

July 6, 2020 Information on the dynamics of long-term use of winter cover crops in California's San Joaquin Valley will be shared with online participants as part of the Desert Southwest Soil Health Webinar (https://www.eventbrite.

The University of California Board of Regents will hold a virtual special meeting on Tuesday, July 7, at 3:30 p.m. PDT starting with the closed session of the Governance Committee. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting will be conducted entirely as a teleconference and start with public comment.

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by Rainer Hoenicke What do those of us who live in a Napa townhouse with a 500 square-foot patio area as their backyard and those living out in the countryside on a 5-acre ranchette have in common?

Here's Patrick Cavanaugh interviewing Guelta Laguerre (UC Davis undergraduate student working in the Al-Khatib Lab.

We call it the Fourth of July or Independence Day. Our 13 American colonies rose up against the monarch of Great Britain, King George III, and declared themselves free and independent.