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Fact: Eighty percent of the world's population eat insects. Fact: At least 80 percent of those attending the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on entomophagy ate one or more insects--a cricket, an earthworm or a mealworm. The diners ranged in age from a 9-month-old girl to senior citizens.

Also in this Edition .. Kings County 4-H News Enrollment Council Mtg. Kings Fair Updates Staff Updates Achievement Night Pick your project 4-H Volunteer Info. Club & Project Updates State 4-H News Youth Science Day Community Service Projects Youth Summits Insert Ag-Ventures Youth Appli.

The initiative to engage Latino youth and families in the 4-H Youth Development Program, managed by the University of California has just issued their first year report.

Un aviso a todos que tomar lugar un evento breve de educacin agrcola de manejo de nitrgeno en la fresa de la Costa Central. Un buen contenido poniendo nfasis del uso de nitrgeno, sobre todo la utilidad de abonamiento preplantar, en el campo.

Just a head's up to everyone on a brief education event concerning nitrogen management in strawberry on the Central Coast. Good content featuring discussion on nitrogen use, especially the the utility of preplant fertilizer, in the field.

Reposted from UC Davis News Sierra Nevada forests are losing plant diversity due to high-severity fires, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. These fires are turning patches of forest into shrub fields indefinitely, in some cases.

Helping people attain financial security and healthy, active lives has been a career passion for Patti Wooten Swanson, UC Cooperative Extension nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor for San Diego County.

Fall & Winter Prune Orchard Considerations Long Pruning for Greater Early Yields Cytospora: A year-round fight Increase Your Return on Investment with Post-Harvest Weed Scouting...

Zheng Wang, vegetable crops advisor with UC Cooperative Extension in Stanislaus County, visited an ag class at Stanislaus State to discuss a state-of-the-art vegetable production practice that involves grafting, reported Alivah Stoeckl in Stan State News.

Ambrosia beetles, which are a large group of several thousand species worldwide, belong to the bark beetles. All species are characterized by the ability to cultivate fungi.