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Integrated pest management recommends using multiple approaches such as selection of resistant varieties, manipulation of habitat and modifying cultural practices in a manner that is not beneficial to the pest, and conserving natural enemies before using pesticides.

As honey bees go about their bee-ness, foraging among the pomegranate and other blossoms here in California, internationally recognized entomologist May Berenbaum, professor and head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is preparing for her Storer Lecture...

repost WSSA press release - Brad For Immediate Release WSSA to Sponsor Second National Summit on Herbicide Resistance LAWRENCE, Kansas May 15, 2014 Today the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) announced plans for a second national scientific summit on the topic of herbicide resistance.

If you're thinking about adding more bee friendly plants to your garden but you're concerned about the drought, the UC Davis Arboretum has the answers. The arboretum will host its public spring clearance plant sale on Saturday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Lygus bug on strawberry (Photo by Surendra Dara) Western tarnished plant bug (Lygus hesperus), also known as lygus bug is a major pest of strawberries. Feeding damage results in misshapen fruit which is not marketable.

Growers and pest control advisors look at strawberry plants daily and see problems often. Some problems like salt injury are frequent while others, like frost injury are only seen once in a few years.

With hot, dry winds, the question came up this week about whether the hot temperatures or the low humidity would affect pollen viability. It turns out that both day and night time temperatures will affect pollen tube growth.

Female Valley carpenter bees are solid black--except when they're foraging around passion flowers. Then they're black and yellow--the yellow being the color of the pollen transferred to their thorax. Beautiful? Absolutely.

Western tarnished plant bug (Lygus hesperus), also known as lygus bug, is a major pest of strawberries in California. Ideal environmental conditions and the diversity and abundance of crop and weed hosts that support the pest contributed to its increasing populations.

Mark your calendars if you want to hear about bees, honey laundering, sex and the single parsnip! All in a two-day period...