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May 2012

May 1, 2014
Potassium fertility in rice - Managing late planted rice...
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Colusa County: Article

June 2012

May 1, 2014
Behavior of winged primrose willow and herbicide options for control - Rice tillering.
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Colusa County: Article

July 2012

May 1, 2014
Propanil-resistant smallflower umbrellasedge - Armyworms - Rice Experiment Station Field Day announcement...
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Herbicides that move up in plants

May 1, 2014
By Gale Perez
A recent blog post titledPlant growth and development and herbicide efficacy discussed herbicides like glyphosate and imazapyr that move through plants in the sugar conducting tissues (aka phloem or symplastic system).
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A Valley carpenter bee appears to be "nectar-robbing," drilling a hole through the flower instead of going into the entrance. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Lurking Place of the Fairies

April 30, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Foxgloves are called "the lurking place of the fairies." That could be. Foxgloves are also known by their genus name, Digitalis--meaning fingerlike. The genus is native to western and southwestern Europe, western and central Asia, Australasia and northwestern Africa.
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Honey bee packing a load of blue pollen heading for the tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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How Tall Is It?

April 29, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We have this tall plant in our back yard. How tall is it? Tall enough to give weather forecasts. (It's never caught short by a sudden storm.) Tall enough to see over the neighbor's fence to find a missing ball.
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Honey bees in the hands of Pam Kan-Rice. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bee-ing There and Bee-Lieving in the Bees

April 28, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Just call it a "practice run." Or a "buzz run." Barbara Allen-Diaz, vice president of the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) vowed last year to wear bees if she received at least $2500 in donations for UC student scholarships through the "Promise for Education" fundraising drive.
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Yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on rock rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Bad Hair Day

April 25, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"It was a bad hair day," quipped native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis. Yes, it was. A very bad hair day.
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