Quick! How many bumble bees have you seen so far this year? For me, it's zero, zilch, nada. They're out there, though. Talent insect photographer Allan Jones of Davis, shared some of his images that he captured this year.
SACRAMENTO An additional portion of Fresno County along its southern border with Tulare County has been placed under quarantine for the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) following the detections of ACP in two locations in an unincorporated area of northern Tulare County near the City of Orange Cove.
Mark Hoddle of UC Riverside Entomology Department has intorduced a second species of natural enemy of Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP), Diaphoencyrtus aligarhensis, imported from Punjab, Pakistan. It was officially released December 16, 2014 at the Biological Control Grove at UCR.
It's a given: Honey bees love lupine. We watched them buzzing around a flower patch of blue (lupine) and gold (California poppies) today along Hopkins Road, University of California, Davis, west of the central campus. Those are Aggie colors: blue and gold.
Stored Product Insect Pest Management in Rice Mills and Storage Facilities Workshop Optimizing Insect Control and Grain Quality Sponsored by University of California Cooperative Extension and Lundberg Family Farms April 7, 2015 9:00 am 3:00 pm Lundberg Family Farms 5311 Midway Richvale, CA 95974 We...
Dr. Margaret Smither-Kopperl, Director of the USDA NRCS Plant Materials Center in Lockeford, CA, has organized a public field day on cover crops Tuesday, March 10, from 9 to 11:30. The agenda for this field day is attached.
There are few new herbicide active ingredients in the pipeline now. In the 1970s and 1980s several new active ingredients were introduced every year. There were lots of jobs in industry and weed science was the place to be. I myself was with ICI/Zeneca from 1983 to 1994 in their R&D group.
He's never seen anything like it. A pink cabbage white butterfly? Pieris rapae are not pink--they're white Yet there it was, flying around Cypress Lane in West Davis around noon Thursday, March 15. It was sporting a new do, a strange pinkish/red hue.
Huanglongbing or Citrus Greening caused by Asian Citrus Psyllid and its associated bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter A. causes misshapened fruit and causes the fruit to have a green portion on the skin. Hence the name citrus greening.
