Ah, soapberry bugs... They'll never get top billing in a racy novel, let alone star in an R-rated movie. The "R" word comes into play only when they're referred to as "the rapidly evolving soapberry bugs" or when scientists talk about reproduction.
Last night we heard the Berkeley Boom again. Weve been hearing this thunderous boom quite frequently in the last month here in Berkeley, but this one sounded bigger than most. Car alarms went off on the street. The dog jumped. What IS that? I wondered aloud.
The hills and lawns might look green still, but the drought has hit the east bay hard. The sparkling, clean, tasty water we usually have delivered through our taps via the Mokelumne River Basin in the Sierra Nevada.
Plant Clinic, Friday April 3 from 10-3pm Griff's Feed and Seed, 7th and Fremont, Colusa Do you have questions about watering your lawn and garden during the drought? Do you have a gardening question? NEW this year. We will help you re-pot your plant.
It never got very cold this winter in spite of the freeze we had at the turn of the new year. Insects that are normally knocked back by cold weather such as scales and the formidable Asian Citrus Psyllid continued on very well, thank you.
Who wouldn't like to have a lady beetle, aka ladybug? Although they're commonly called "ladybugs," entomologists call them "lady beetles." That's because they're beetles, not bugs.
Remember Stephanie Hsia? She's the beekeeper/graduate student at Harvard's Graduate School of Design who traveled through almond orchards in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys in May 2014 to illustrate and pen a book about the spatial relationship between honey bees and almonds.
