Understanding the behavior of a pest is very important in developing appropriate control strategies. Information on feeding, host searching, migratory, and reproductive behavior of the invasive Bagrada bug is very limited in published literature.
From this great paper I just came across: Stefan Steiniger and Andrew J.S. Hunter, 2013. The 2012 free and open source GIS software map A guide to facilitate research, development, and adoption. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems. Volume 39: 136150.
Cmty Educ Spec 3 / Pesticide Safety Educator Application instructions and a full position description are available on the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources employment website (https://jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57905).
Most of us think about bats at least twice a year: during National Pollinator Week, when bees, beetles, butterflies and bats beckon, and on Halloween, when bats mingle with the witches, ghosts, ghouls, goblins and other things that go bump in the night. Bats are pollinators? Definitely.
Meeting announcements from WSSA Plus, I'll add in my own plug for the California Weed Science Society meeting, January 21-23, 2014 in Santa Barbara Weed Science Societies Focus on the Future during Upcoming Annual Meetings LAWRENCE, Kansas November 20, 2014 Upcoming annual meetings of the Weed Sci...
Native bee enthusiast Celeste Ets-Hokin of the Bay Area is on a mission: she wants residents to provide habitat for wild bees, including bumble bees, sweat bees, miner bees, mason bees, digger bees and long-horned bees.
It has been demonstrated that baling rice straw immediately after harvest (called rice strawlage) greatly increases its nutritional value for livestock. Baling at 30 to 40 percent moisture can have the challenge of mold management.
