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Do you have snails and slugs chewing up your favorite garden plants? Are spiders hanging out in and around your home? How can you get rid of those pesky webs? The UC Statewide IPM program has just released six short videos to help you find answers to these questions.

So patient, so passionate. The praying mantis looked hungry last Thursday when it perched on a coneflower in the half-acre Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis. Where's breakfast? Where's lunch? Where's dinner? Nowhere to be found.

Introduction The economic sustainability and consequent longevity of Californias historic black ripe table olive industry is challenged by the crippling cost of hand-harvest, a cost that often exceeds 50-75% of gross return.

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Just before you open your carton of premier ice cream, you may want to enjoy the sound of violins and cellos. There's an app for that. More specifically, there's a concerto for that. And it all deals with the Hagen-Dazs premier ice cream brand supporting bee research at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.

So there you are, a little sweat bee, foraging in the buckwheat. You sip some nectar, and suddenly, a flash of yellow. A wolf is at your door.

We just concluded our first IGIS Program all-hands-on-deck retreat. We evaluated our program components and made huge progress on planning for the future. Key in our discussion was GIS Training for ANR, and linkages with the ANR Research and Extension Centers (RECs).

Breaking news shook the agricultural world today. The Mediterranean fruit fly, considered the world's worst agricultural pest, is one of at least five fruit flies established in California. It cannot be eradicated.

Eddy Covariance Flux tower deployment was completed August 2nd, capturing a wealth of ecoinformatics data for researchers. This is the 3rd of a 9 tower network scheduled for full deployment by this fall.

This is the first time since I moved to California that I've seen leafhoppers actually injuring rice. Leaf tips turned yellow, and from the road it looks like salt injury, but once you get in the field you can see leafhopper nymphs and adults jumping and flying around.