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Jefferson Wright, an eighth grader at Emerson Middle School, Davis, enjoys attending the annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. "I have always liked museum day and every year It gets better and better. I can't wait to go this year!" He's pictured in the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology.
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UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: An Unforgettable Science-Based Day

January 2, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
He says it well. Jefferson Wright, the eighth grader at Emerson Middle School, Davis, who is pictured on the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day website, says: "I have always liked museum day and every year it gets better and better.
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Under the Solano Sun: Article

Pruning Tips

January 2, 2020
Recently a friend of mine asked me to look at her apricot tree and give her some advice on tree pruning. This tree had never been pruned and it produced small apricots. It had several limbs about 1 all growing upward.
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The focus of this new USDA-ARS honey bee research program is to develop technology that improves colony survivorship through long-term studies of multiple stress factors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Ribbon Cutting Jan. 7 for USDA-ARS Bee Research Facility at UC Davis

January 2, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A ribbon-cutting ceremony and facility tour on Tuesday, Jan. 7 will mark the opening of the newly constructed Honey Bee Research Facility of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), located on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis.
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Figure 2: Late applications: Means followed by the same letter do not significantly differ (p= 0.05, LSD).
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Insecticide Management of Leafrollers in Blackberries

January 2, 2020
By Mark P Bolda
Happy New Year everyone. Let's see that we have a good season coming up here. Just rolling through old Powerpoint presentations looking for some information on herbicides for a local grower put me on to this presentation I made on leafroller control in 2008.
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Quagga mussels at different stages of development. (Photo: California Department Fish and Wildlife)
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Integrated aquatic pest management shows promise

January 2, 2020
By Jeannette Warnert
Carolynn Culver, a research scientist at UC Santa Barbara and an California Sea Grant extension specialist, is researching whether native sunfish can be used in place of toxic chemicals to reduce invasive mussel larvae and other pests in Southern California lakes and reservoirs, reported Sonia Ferna...
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