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Every day should be Spider Appreciation Day, but especially on Halloween. Ophthalmologist and professor Ivan Schwab of the UC Davis Health System says that spiders get a bad rap. Few would harm you, and only rarely are spiders aggressive towards humans.

Thursday, Nov. 7 promises to be an exciting day for the Northern California Entomology Society--a great presentation by UC Davis evolutionary ecologist Leslie Saul-Gershenz, who researches how blister beetle nest parasites cooperate to mimic the sex pheromone of a digger bee.

Weed Science CE Specialist position available at UC Riverside: The Department of Botany and Plant Sciences invites applications for an Assistant Cooperative Extension Weed Specialist (11-month tenure-track, 90% CE, 10% OR).

Don't miss the Medusahead and Barb Goatgrass Forum on Nov. 5, 2013 at the UC Sierra Foothill Research & Extension Center (SFREC) in Browns Valley, CA. THE EVENT IS FREE! CLICK HERE for the agenda.

What will it be? Wear bees or eat insects? Lets do both! UC ANR Vice-President Barbara Allen-Diaz promises to wear beeshoney beesif she can raise $2500 by Thursday, Oct. 31 for the UC Promise for Education, a fundraising project to help needy UC students. See her promise page to donate.

[Packaging Digest 10 Oct 2013] United States produce industry leader, Tanimura & Antle has had its greenhouse grown butter lettuce independently certified as Pesticide Residue Free.? Lettuce packages will feature a new certification mark alerting shoppers to this unique product benefit.

We're not perfect. Mother Nature isn't, either. For several weeks, we've been rearing Gulf Fritilliary butterflies (Agraulis vanillae).

If you find yourself needing a few continuing education units (CEUs) to renew your DPR QAL, QAC, or PCA license as the year draws to a close, take UC IPMs online courses on pesticide application methods and preventing pesticide runoff in urban areas for landscape and structural pest management profe...

Travel can be enlightening. In Turkey I learned that sour orange rootstock is routinely used with lemon and mandarin scions without any fear of tristeza virus, a formidable disease of oranges.

Tom Lanini is a fisherman first and foremost. Yet since 1978 he has devoted his time and energy to being a Cooperative Extension specialist at UC Davis, fighting the weeds that plague farmers across California.