Ongoing research

Here are some events related to livestock and range management that may be of interest. You can always check my website for new event postings.

It ain't over yet, and this last week we had a wonderful 2 day meeting with folks who have dealt with drought in many different ways. Here are presentations made by people from Israel, Australia and California. Soon the actual videos will be available, but now see the powerpoints. http://www.

USDA-ARS researchers at Oregon and Washington State Universities have recently publicized* the results of a long-term field trials investigating the utility of native soil bacteria for selective control for the invasive annual grasses cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum, also known as downy brome), jointed...

We had a great day today exploring ESRI open tools in the GIF.

Ah, rain! It's good for the drought and it's good for the rain beetles. If you've never seen a rain beetle (genus Pleocoma) no worries. Most people haven't, either.

You don't see many honey bee foraging in the winter. They're snuggled deep inside their hives, awaiting spring. But when the temperature hits a sunny 55, look for them. It's winter in the UC Davis Arboretum, 11 weeks until spring.

[From the December 2015 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] On August 5, 2015, EPA released a proposal to revise the standards for both commercial and private certified pesticide applicators.

Elizabeth "Liz" Frost, formerly of the University of California, Davis, is taking her love of honey bees back to Australia. She's the newly hired honey bee development officer, an Extension-like position, in the state of New South Wales. Frost left the States last Sunday, Jan. 10.

We live in a world where the importance and availability of spatial data are ever increasing.

How do you get your point across if you're trying to explain what a "parasitoid" is? Well, if you're the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, you do it with a family craft activity--inflating a balloon inside a balloon to get a "parasitoid" balloon.