Ongoing research

Plants have been acting differently this spring. Along the coast the peaches have barely bloomed and it's May. Avocado Brown Mite has had a field day. Stethorus beetles have been in low numbers and biocontrol is out of whack. Her ladybug Coccinelid sisters have been in low numbers, as well.

One of the unsolved mysteries of our work in berries has been what of the pupae of spotted wing drosophila?

Put it on your calendars: The Flavors of Fall Class is coming quick.

New UCCE (OC) Master Gardener AND new KUCI host David Letourneau talks with Ramiro Lobo, Small Farms & Agricultural Economics Advisor for the San Diego County UCCE.

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UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ announced the appointment of Professor David Ackerly as the next dean of the College of Natural Resources (CNR). Ackerly joined the faculty of the Department of Integrative Biology from Stanford in 2005, held the Virginia G. and Robert E.

Prune Rootstock Trial Field Day Pre-Harvest and Harvest Prune Orchard Considerations Managing canker diseases in prune orchards: what we have learned so far Prune Harvest Timing July Leaf Sampling: A Critical Task in Prune Production Growing the Valley Podcast...

We have been scouting for Bagrada bug on wild host plants at two sites in the San Ardo area since middle of May. We selected San Ardo as our most southern scouting point for the Salinas Valley.

Newly published research by entomologist David James of Washington State University, Pullman, Wash., in the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society yielded incredible news about the monarch population that migrates from the Pacific Northwest to California.

A group of 4th and 5th graders sat in a line on the floor of the school cafeteria, quietly waiting for the guest to set up his model. Hello, everyone, Dr. Sandoval began. Hola! Cmo estn?," he continued, and immediately a boy sprang to his knees.