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Turf: Advanced geospatial analysis for browsers and node

February 17, 2015
By Maggi Kelly
Mapbox introduced a new javascript library for spatial analysis called Turf.js. On the "Guides to getting started" page, it claims that Turf "helps you analyze, aggregate, and transform data in order to visualize it in new ways and answer advanced questions about it.
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Extension apiculturist (emeritus) Eric Mussen with his engraved clock from the Almond Board of California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Eight Decades of Bees 'n Skeeters

February 17, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Quick! What do you think of when someone mentions "honey bees and mosquitoes" in the same sentence? Honey bees are the pollinators, the beneficial insects. Infected mosquitoes transmit killer diseases such as malaria and dengue; they are our most dangerous insect enemies on the planet.
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A honey bee with a huge pollen load heads for more mustard pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Cutting the Mustard

February 16, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Spring is the busiest time of year for honey bees, and their keepers, whether the operation is in the desert uplands of southern Arizona, the citrus groves of Florida, or the apple orchards of Washington state," writes entomologist/bee expert Stephen "Steve" Buchmann in his book, Honey Bees: Letter...
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Honey bee foraging on a pansy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Bee Mine

February 13, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
How to celebrate Valentine's Day? Well, without pollinators, we wouldn't be celebrating Valentine's Day as we know it. That box of chocolates? Give thanks to the midges that pollinated the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao.
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CASI Tent at World Ag Expo 2015 in Tulare
Conservation Agriculture: Article

CASI involved in its 10th World Ag Expo in Tulare!

February 13, 2015
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
Along with several other private sector, university and NRCS partners, the CASI Center once again took part in the World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA this week and hosted a good number of guests at our well-positioned site that we have graciously been allowed to share with long-time CASI members, Alan Wilc...
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A honey bee queen on a finger. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Give Her Some Space

February 12, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you see a news story about "honey bees" in a newspaper or magazine, odds are you'll see it spelled as one word, "honeybees." That's because the Associated Press Stylebook, the journalists' "bible," spells it that way. So do dictionaries. However, in the entomological world, that's incorrect.
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