Ongoing research

UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Pokeweed: A giant of a weed!

August 15, 2018
By Scott R Oneto
This is a follow up article to a blog that my colleague, Guy Kyser wrote back in 2011 titled Purple alert: Common Pokeweed. Since that time, I probably get a dozen or so calls this time of year asking, what is that huge weed growing in my yard with dark black berries and big green leaves.
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Longhorned bees--Melissodes (possibly M. robustior) slumbering on a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

What's Not to Love About 'Boys' Night Out'?

August 15, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We look forward to "The Boys' Night Out." Ah, pillow fights, popcorn, and marathon movies on TV, you ask? No. "Boys' Night Out" is when the longhorned male bees in our pollinator garden in Vacaville engage in sleepovers on our Mexican sunflowers (Tithonia) and other blossoms.
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Dr. David Headrick elevated into tree canopy placing mesh cages around infested branches of ficus tree on Higher Street, downtown SLO.
UC Master Gardeners- Diggin' it in SLO: Article

Taking Biological Control to New Heights

August 15, 2018
By Maria Murrietta
Next time you're on Higuera St. in downtown SLO, look up. Cal Poly entomology professor, Dr. David Headrick, is taking biological control to new heights! Here's his story: An invasive whitefly pest is attacking our giant fig trees in downtown SLO.
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Dry Bean Field Day, UC Davis
UC Dry Bean Blog: Article

Dry Bean Field Meeting, UC Davis, Thursday, August 23, 2018, 10 am- 12:30 pm

August 15, 2018
By Rachael Long
UC Davis Agronomy Farm Directions: In the field across from the UC Davis Bee Biology Lab (same place as previous years). From Hwy 113 in Davis, exit on Hutchison Dr. Go west, turn north at the first roundabout, then west at the second roundabout. Continue west on Hutchison Dr for about 1 mile.
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Nursery and Flower Grower: Article

What You Can’t See

August 15, 2018
By Steven A Tjosvold
Question: Which of the four Gerbera plants above are infected with a deadly plant pathogen? Answer: Most observers would say the badly wilted plants, that is, the second and fourth from the left.
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Community Pest News: Article

Job opening with CDFA

August 15, 2018
By Karey Windbiel-Rojas
Annoucement: The Integrated Pest Control Branch of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Biological Control Program, is recruiting to fill an Agricultural Technician I in its Sacramento, Meadowview office.
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Meadow spittlebug nymph at the Bodega Marine Reserve. (Photo by Mikaela Huntzinger)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Meadow Spittlebugs Declining Rapidly Along the California Coastline

August 15, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Meadow spittlebugs, once very abundant on plants along the California coastline, are declining rapidly or vanishing from their previous habitats, according to ecologists Richard Karban and Mikaela Huntzinger of the University of California, Davis, co-authors of newly published research in the journa...
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