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Weed Ecologist http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/453048300 Department: Department Of Agriculture Agency: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Number of Job Opportunities & Location(s): 3 vacancies - Riverdale, Maryland Salary: $53,435.00 to $84,044.

Job announcement for the Associate Director / Field Research Coordinator for the Western Region IR-4 Program. Position is located at the UC Davis campus.

Everybody eats in the pollinator garden. Maybe not at the same time, but they all eat. We noticed a syrphid fly, aka flower fly/hover fly, heading toward a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) in our pollinator garden. Alas for the fly, it was occupied. Occupied by a honey bee (Apis mellifera). No worries.

Knocking Out Noxious Weeds on Rangelands November 16, 2016 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) runs the most extensive Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program in the nation and is hard at work ensuring that the fruit and vegetables we purchase and consume are free from illegal pesticide residu...

Notes on where to find historical aerial imagery (thanks to Kass Green): The USDA has an archive of aerial imagery in Salt Lake City at APFOhttp://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/aerial-photography/index. There is a ArcGIS online map of the tiles and dates of this photos.

Last spring you may have seen honey bees pollinating the showy pomegranate blossoms. The ancient fruit, first cultivated around 4000 B.C. in Persia and known as "the fruit of kings," bursts with flavor, antioxidants and medicinal qualities.

In this issue: Welcome Kate! Our new Community Education Specialist has arrived.

A perfect perch. A young male variegated meadowhawk dragonfly, Sympetrum corruptum, found a perfect perch--a seed ball of Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) in our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif. It towered over the garden and so did he.

A Unique Data Science Summit Yesterday, several of us in the IGIS Program participated remotely in a very interesting summit on data science in agriculture.