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Jones named UCCE forestry advisor Michael Jones joined UCCE on Oct. 1, 2018, as the area forestry advisor in Mendocino, Lake and Sonoma counties. He specializes in forest entomology with a focus on forest health and integrated pest management of invasive and endemic forest pests.

Good air circulation in a crop canopy has many important positive impacts. As described in previous blogs, carbon dioxide utilization and consequently photosynthesis is improved.

Picture this! A 5x6-foot ruby-tailed wasp! When you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, that's what will greet you at its entrance.

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(News Flash: Congratulations to the UC Berkeley-UC Davis team! They won the national championship at the ESA meeting held Nov. 11-14 in Vancouver, B.

UC Sierra Foothill REC is hosting a community workshop & field demonstration event where The Silver Lab at UC Berkeley will discuss results from a long-term (10 year) compost addition trial on foothill rangeland and observed benefits for forage quality, quantity, and soil health characteristics.

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Pest services, courtesy of your neighborhood bug eating birds, are free! The estimate in a recent study is that the world's birds eat 450 million to 550 million tons of insects and other arthropods each year.

Please see below link to access "How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use (ET) Reports to Assist Farm Water Management" How to Use Weekly Crop Water Use Report Please see below link to access "Weekly ET Report 10-29-18" ET Report 10-29-2018 Please see disclaimer link below: University of California Division...