Ongoing research

Dear Crab Spider, Please don't eat the pollinators. You may help yourself to a mosquito, a crane fly, a lygus bug, an aphid, and a katydid, not necessarily in that order. And more than one if you like.

Tom Willey's "Down on the Farm" 88.1 FM KFCF Radio Interview with CalCAN's Renata Brillinger and CASI's Jeff Mitchell on California's GHG emissions offset programs and the California farm demonstration network An audio archive of the KFCF 88.

The Pajaro Compass Network was launched on June 23 at the Hollister Veterans Memorial Building. The Network is a group of agencies, non-profit organizations, and landowners who are interested in working together to enhance voluntary conservation throughout the Pajaro River watershed.

In June 2016 the Madsen team revisited the site of our 2015 surfactant study to establish a more extensive test of aquatic herbicides for controlling waterhyacinth in the Delta.

Eight folks from NRCS, UCCE, and the CASI Workgroup met with Dr.

Today we celebrate the Fourth of July, also known as Independence Day. History books tell us that on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring the 13 colonies a new nation and no longer part of the British Empire.

What's better than sighting a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii? Well, a newly emerged Bombus vosnesenskii queen. On the last day of June, we spotted this fresh queen-looking foraging on our blanket flower (Gaillardia).

This is the time of year when small islands of waterhyacinth break loose from their parent mats, seeking new marinas to clog up. The Madsen team is embedding radio dog collars into freefloating mats to track their movements with the currents, tides, and wind.

There has been more than the usual number of questions about what I am calling "bio-based" herbicides recently. Arguably, this is coming from news that some school districts and cities specifically calling out the use of glyphosate on the properties they manage.

It's time to add an eighth wonder to the Seven Wonders of the (Ancient) World: a feral honey bee colony. One with exposed comb.