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A monarch butterfly on a butterfly bush. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Make Way for the Monarchs

June 3, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's good to see so many scientists and citizen scientists taking an avid interest in monarchs. The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), probably the most recognizable of all the butterflies, is known for its long migratory route from Canada to Mexico.
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Avocado quality manual
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Avocado Quality Handbook

June 3, 2014
By Ben A Faber
25% Discount on International Avocado Quality Manuals and Booklets (English and Spanish) Description: This comprehensive avocado quality resource is printed on heavy weight gloss paper and comprises 70 pages (8.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Herbicide carry over in compost?

June 3, 2014
By Richard F Smith
Each of the past several years, we have received samples of tomato plants from small growers and homeowners that have severe leaf deformity.
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Squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, on a squash blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Why the Squash Bee Is Important

June 2, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Peponapis pruinosa isn't your common household word. But among the people who study pollinators, it is. Also known as a squash bee, it is an important pollinator of cultivated crops of squash, pumpkins, and others members of the genus Cucurbita.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Preventing weeds with the use of hedgerows

June 2, 2014
By Gale Perez
From the WeedsNews4873 | May 20, 2014 | 8:28 pm Abstract: Non-native plant distribution and community composition, along with an array of environmental factors, were examined in 31 hedgerows, an archetypal class of conservation linkage, in the northern part of California's Central Valley.
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June 2014 CloverLines

June 2, 2014
In this issue... Super Field Day results, South Section Field Day results, 4-H Surf Day, Equine Gymkhana Clinic and much more...
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UC Davis Art/Science Fusion co-founder and co-director Donna Billick with her mosaic ceramic sculpture, Miss Bee Haven, in the half-acre Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey
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Fusing Art With Science

May 30, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program is incredible. It's a program that, as the name indicates, fuses art and science. Science with art. On that note, two noteworthy events sponsored by the program will take place next week.
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Honey bee foraging on milkweed in the UC Davis Arboretum, near Mrak Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Got Milk (Weed) for the Bees?

May 29, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Folks are planting milkweed for the monarchs. The milkweed (genus Asclepias) is the host plant (larval food) for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). No wonder the monarch is sometimes called "the milkweed butterfly.
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