Ongoing research

Saira Diaz uses her fingers to count the establishments selling fast food and sweets near the South Los Angeles home she shares with her parents and 13-year-old son. There's one, two, three, four, five fast-food restaurants, she says.

The latest newsletter from the UCCE Subtropical Crops Advisors and Specialists is available to read now: http://ceventura.ucanr.edu/newsletters/Topics_in_Subtropics79941.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Gardener's Request I've discovered that carpenter bees are nesting in holes they've created in my roof beams. I'd like to get rid of them, but I don't want to harm them when I repair the holes.

Would you like to see more prescribed fire on San Benito and Monterey County rangelands? Come learn how on June 5 and 6.

We had a good conversation during Tuesday's Academic Assembly Council. There was a long list of topics, but we were able to work through the list in the 2 hours we had.

We are happy to announce that the diamondback moth capture data, presented as maps, is now housed in our own University of California Cooperative Extension Monterey website. To access to these maps, simply click on the link below: http://cemonterey.ucanr.

"You can learn a lot from these displays," a fairgoer at the 144th annual Dixon May Fair commented. She was looking at an educational display with the catchy title, "None of Your Beeswax," the work of Ryan Anenson of the Tremont 4-H Club, Dixon, whose projects include beekeeping.

In this issue: Livestock's Impact on Greenhouse Gases Bacterial Blossom and Leaf Blast and Canker of Almond Trees Impact of Warm-season Legume Cover Crop on Soil Properties Calendar of Events...

Postdoctoral fellow Jessica Gillung of Cornell University, who received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, is the recipient of the prestigious Marsh Award for Early Career Entomologist, sponsored by the Royal Entomological Society.

Hello all, Please find the attached document to provide the previous weeks estimated water use report in terms of evapotranspiration for almonds, peaches, walnuts, established vineyard, alfalfa, and pasture in Stanislaus County.