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By Brent McGhie, UC Master Gardener of Butte County, May 31, 2019 The University of California recommends the use of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to control garden pests. The goal of IPM is to use the least harmful control method(s) that will be effective in managing a particular pest.

There are a number of causes for the white exudate from cankers on the trunk and limbs of avocado. Any wound will cause the tree sap to run and crystalize on the surface. It is a seven-carbon sugar of mannoheptulose, or its alcohol form perseitol. It's sweet.

By Andre Biscaro Join us on Thursday, June 12, 2019 from 9 am-10:30 a.m. at Crisalida Berry Farms in Oxnard for this important free field day.

Dear 4-H Families, Here is the revised newsletter. We have many deadlines and articles.

Hello 4-H Families, We have a huge newsletter with many new articles and deadlines.

UC Davis chemical ecologist Walter Leal characterizes the work in his lab as "like bolas spiders." What are bolas spiders? Well, they're also known as angling or fishing spiders. That's because they don't spin a web, they hunt with a sticky glob of silk on the end of a line known as "bolas.

Download PDFSee ALL Science You Can Use Rangelands on the Edge quantifies and maps aspects of rangeland conversion, including watershed fragmentation. The darkest red color on the map represents the most fragmented rangeland watersheds.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 UC Master Gardener training class. The training class teaches research-based sustainable landscape practices.

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