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Pruning Cherimoya for Off-season Fruit

April 21, 2014
By Ben A Faber
A recent trip to Spain was an opportunity to look at their cherimoya production practices. One of the most interesting is their ability to manage the tree through pruning to produce fruit off-season (in spring) when the prices are the highest.
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Debra Jamison (left), state regent, and Gayle Mooney, state treasurer, share a bench that the California State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution purchased for the UC Davis bee garden.

An Un-bee-lievably Generous Gift

April 18, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
What an un-bee-lievably generous gift! Debra Jamison, state regent of the California State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. loves bees. So when it came time to select a fundraising project, she knew what she wanted to do.
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Be on the Lookout for Spotted Wing Drosophila

April 18, 2014
Adult male spotted wing drosophila. Note the dark spot on the tip of its wings. (Photo by Larry L. Strand) It's cherry growing season and a good time to begin looking for spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii.
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Fran Keller chasing dragonflies. (Photo by Alex Wild)

Cataloging Insect and Bat Diversity in Belize

April 17, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A unique effort to raise funds to collect insects in the biodiversity hotspot of Belizewhich would result in specimens for the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, among other goals-- is galloping into the home stretch.
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Orchard Notes - April/May 2014

April 16, 2014
Irrigation Scheduling in a Drought Year Field Meeting Final Chilling Hours Predicting Peach Harvest Sizing Peach Fruit Website Resources Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Alert 37th Annual Nickels Field Day...
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A malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, feeding on human blood. (Photo by Anthony Cornel)
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Observing Bay Area World Malaria Day

April 15, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The statistics are alarming. "Every 45 seconds a child in Africa dies from malaria, a disease spread by a single mosquito bite. There are more than 200 million cases of malaria each year, and nearly 1 million of those infected die from the disease most of them children under the age of five.
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