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Everybody eats in the pollinator garden. That includes crab spiders that sprawl atop a flower, flatten themselves, and wait, oh, so patiently, for dinner. We've seen them nab green bottle flies, sweat bees and honey bees. They pounce, inject a killer venom, and dinner is served.

A land manager recently contacted me with questions about overseeding alfalfa. Her alfalfa stand is diminishing but not to the point of giving up on it.

A recent USDA-CDFA collaboration has documented the first establishment of a population of the water hyacinth planthopper in the western U.S.

Holistic Management International is holding a workshop on Preserving the Cowboy Side of California': Innovative Practices to Continue the Ranching Lifestyle on September 7, 2016 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Let's celebrate the Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae).

Hello All, For the past several years IGIS has attended the ESRI User Conference in San Diego and we have come back with many new and exciting tools that UCANR could use in our daily work.

Please mark your calendar with the following fall outreach events.

Avocado is a tree that has a good ability to respond to fire damage, if it is not too extensive. However, often a tree will recover only to collapse later on in the year or years because of the damage. So a tree may appear to do well and then suddenly collapse.

It's one of the most recognizable of all insects--if you can find it. Ever had someone poke you and point toward a plant: "Look, there's a praying mantis?" "Where?" "Right there. See it?" "No. Where is it? "Right there. It's right there. Can't you see it?" "No.

The destruction after a fire can be pretty gruesome and sad. Many times, though the fire moves through the orchard so fast that, even though the canopy has turned brown, there is a good chance the trees can come back. It all depends on how much damage has been done to the trunk.