Ongoing research

Here's a quick post for today to use up all those extra jars you may have collected: Make a chandelier from canning jars. First, I give you the link to an article on Insteading about all sorts of DIY Chandeliers, and scroll down to see the mason jar ones: https://insteading.

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"Bee" sure to tune in Science Friday, the National Public Radio program, tomorrow (May 24) at noon to hear the buzz about honey bees.

It's all about the honey bees! Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Nio of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will be one of three guests on the National Public Radio program, Science Friday, on Friday, May 24. The program will air live at noon.

Hail Damage and Your Cotton Crop...

On April 13, 2019, 28 4-H members and volunteers from Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Alameda counties convened with Cooperative Extension staff at the Las Posadas 4-H Camp for the 2019 4-H Environmental Science Institute.

The deadly thousand cankers disease, an emerging insect-fungus complex, has caused profound damage to black walnut trees not only in urban areas of California and other western states, but in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia, according to a newly published review by UC Davis-affiliated scientist...

Solar panels at UC Merced's Science and Engineering building.

Introducing Your New Information Source for CDFA grants, Kern and Ventura Counties Spotlight on SWEEP in Citrus Low Pressure Guide to Low-Flow Irrigation Scheduling The So-Called Leaf Fleck Virus Diseases of Citrus Replanting Trees in Mature Citrus Groves What About Planting Lemons in Kern County?

Have you ever seen the larva of a lady beetle (aka ladybug) dining on an aphid? Lights! Camera! Action! So here is this charming little immature lady beetle chowing down on an oleander aphid that has the audacity to infest the milkweed in our pollinator garden.