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Celebrate National Honey Bee Day by brushing up on your knowledge of bee protectioncheck out the newly revised Best Management Practices to Protect Bees from Pesticides and Bee Precaution Pesticide Ratings from UC IPM.

Are you among the growing group that have taken up beekeeping?

Dear Colleagues, The Center for Produce Safety (CPS) will be accepting preliminary research proposals starting, Tuesday, September 11, 2018. Applications will be due Tuesday, November 13, 2018.

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Join the Santa Clara County Division of Agriculture & UCCE Santa Clara County for a Ground Squirrel and Gopher Management Workshop. Click here to register.

Some seeds don't take much to germinate but others may take a little coaxing. Learn from the best here on In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners. Would you like to get updates from the Orange County Master Gardeners? Hear about what we are doing in the community Receive the "Garden Beet".

Talk about extremes! Have you ever thought about how some insects have adapted to fire, ice, acid, hot water, salt and the desert? Have you ever seen an ambrosia beetle, a red turpentine beetle, an ice cricket, a brine fly or a sand wasp?

This week I am on vacation. For me, if it doesn't involve water, it's not vacation. But that doesn't mean I'm not thinking about what's going on in California and UC ANR.

The UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology will emphasize "fire and insects" when it hosts an open house, Extreme Insects: Fire and Ice, on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 19. The public event, to take place from 1 to 4 p.m.

Managing Soil Health for Sustainable Agriculture Managing soil health for sustainable agriculture covers virtually the entire range of soil health topics. Dr Don Reicosky, himself an internationally distinguished soil scientist, has assembled an impressive roster of chapter authors.