Ongoing research

If there's one thing that entomologists hate, it's journalists who mistake a fly for a bee.

What's it like to be parasitized? Say you're a caterpillar or an aphid and a wasp comes along and lays her eggs inside you. Her eggs will hatch and then her offspring will eat their way out. You, the host, are no more. Zero. Zip. Zilch.

It's a cold spell. As temperatures dip throughout much of California, and honey bees snuggle inside their hives, it's "bees-ness" in southern California this week.

It is weed season! There is a principle in weed management that weeds are often better competitors for resources. Competition begins as soon as seeds break dormancy. The seeds that germinate first are often the ones that obtain the most resources.

Thar's gold in them thar apple trees. Gold? When a rotten apple tree was cut down last week on private property in Davis, scores of eyes peered from the drilled holes.

Virginia Tech is inviting applications for an Assistant Professor of Vegetable/Herbicide Resistance.

WHERE & WHEN Richvale: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 8:30 am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale Glenn: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1:00 pm, Glenn Pheasant Hall, 1522 Highway 45, south of Glenn Colusa: Friday, Jan. 23, 8:30 am, CIP Conference Room, 100 Sunrise Blvd., Colusa Yuba City: Friday, Jan.

What to Read this Month?

In this issue... TOTSOCE Wrap Up, Food Faire & Fashion Revue, Operation Gratitude, Pillowcase Project, and much, much more.

In case you've forgotten amid all the horn-blowing, champagne-sipping and singing of "Auld Lang Syne," the search is still on to collect the first cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) of 2015 in the three county-area of Yolo, Sacramento and Solano.