Ongoing research

Pledging to work together to solve water scarcity issues, Israel's Agricultural Research Organization signed a memorandum of understanding with UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and UC Davis on July 16.

Hello All, For those who don't know me, my name is Rachel Wingler and I am the summer intern at Hopland REC. Through my internship I have had the opportunity to work on and help plan the Sustainable You Summer Camp.

When unusually hot weather is in the forecast, it's time irrigate, shade and mulch plants to protect your plants, reported Sandra Barrera in the Los Angeles Daily News. The story was prompted by a heat spike in Southern California recently, when temperatures soared above 110 degrees in many areas.

Monserrat Monsevalenzuela organized a visit to California by a group of Chilean researchers, nurserymen and regulators tto speak with various groups about how the California citrus industry is responding to Asian citrus psyllid and huanglongbing disease.

It's been quiet for awhile, just odd winter weather and fire and ash and hot hot heat andsuddenly we see a beautiful insect we haven't seen in a while. Jarrell Larmon is a PCA who was nosing around in a Satsuma orchard and he turned up a Barnacle Scale, the likes we havent seen in about 4 years.

Amazing what a difference two years makes! I looked forward to returning to the desert that is California; not something I could have imagined my first summer in CA. Both Guam and Oahu were miserably hot and humid.

Some good news to share! Principal investigator in Choe Laboratory, Choe, is now promoted to Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist / Associate Professor in Urban Entomology.

The "best-kept secret" is no more. Well, it's not so much as a "best-kept secret" but a "UC Davis treasure." Thousands attended the seventh annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, which showcased 13 museums or collections.

Merced County4-H is asking our 4-H families to help donate needed items for the Ferguson Fire. As part of an Emerald Star Project and in coordination with Mariposa County 4-H, we will be collecting items to deliver daily to the fire fighters battling the Ferguson Fire.

Since our last blog post, we have been busy writing up various new Research Snapshots covering a variety of projects aimed to help in the fight against Huanglongbing (HLB) the bacterial disease that is devastating US citrus and the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) that vectors it Examples of our latest Sn...