Ongoing research

My colleague Oleg Daugovish has been super generous and is offering his annual caneberry meeting this year up in Watsonville so we can all be together and mites (including Lewis mite), substrates from an expert, plant nutrition, tunnel management, new variety evaluations for blackberries and raspber...

CASI Website Blog Release January 25, 2019 Rob Roy, NRCS Agronomist in the Fresno Area 3 office, took part in the Soil Health Institute's (SHI) conference held in Chicago, IL January 23rd and 24th and represented the longstanding NRI Project that he's been involved with since 1999 in Five Points, CA...

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Melianthus major is the proper name of my honeybush, but it really deserves a more exotic moniker. This plant is endemic to South Africa and has naturalized in India, Australia, and New Zealand, and it does quite nicely here in Solano County.

News from the Ventura County ACP-HLB Task Force Winter 2019 area-wide treatment cycle has begun This is a reminder that the Winter 2019 area-wide management (AWM) treatment window opened Jan.7.

Diamondback moth (DBM) is a persistent pest in the Salinas-Castroville area. We were able to find late instar caterpillars in several spots along Blackie road on Tuesday January 22nd. Basically, these caterpillars were feeding on brassica weeds, located along the side of the road (Fig. 1).

No winner yet. The annual Beer for a Butterfly" or "Suds for a Bug" contest has not produced a winner. But somewhere out there, is a cabbage white butterfly taking its first flight.

Jennifer Goerlitz, 4-H youth development program representative for Calaveras County, passed away Dec. 17, 2018. She was 54. Goerlitz was the 4-H program coordinator for Calaveras County for 30 years, first with Calaveras County. She transitioned to UC Cooperative Extension in 2012.

Dr. Beth Grafton-Cardwell's entomology staff researchers Stephanie Doria, Joel Leonard, and Matt Morris as well as Lindcove staff researcher Sal Barcenas have been on the hunt for Fuller rose beetle eggs in an experiment at Lindcove.

One of the highlights of our trip to Germany in October was a trip to the Black Forest Open-air Museum Vogtsbauernhof at Gutach.