Ongoing research

UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Dormant Weed Control in Tree Nut Crops 2012-2013

December 19, 2012
By Gale Perez
Below is a link to the Nov. 2012 UCCE San Joaquin County newsletter Field Notes. Page 8 has an article by Mick Canevari (Emeritus Farm Advisor) and Brent Holtz (Farm Advisor, County Director) on dormant weed control in tree nut crops. http://cesanjoaquin.ucanr.
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Beneath these weather-protective tarps: bee-box pillars. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey

Unwrapped!

December 18, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
For more than a week, tarps protected the art from the elements. The artists would work on the installation daily, then stop and cover the art, resuming only when weather permitted.
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Entomologist Jeff Smith, associate at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, talks about a rose-haired tarantula at a Bohart open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bug Lovers, Unite!

December 17, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you like bugs and live in Northern California, you're in luck. The newly formed California Bug Club has scheduled its first meeting for 6 p.m., Satuday, Jan. 12 in the Elk Grove Library's meeting room, 8900 Elk Grove Blvd.
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Whitney Krupp with her beetle art work. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Exciting Insect Tales and Art

December 14, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Deep in the forest, in a tree so old its bark is blackened and its roots are larger around than a man, a beetle flaps its wings.
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Dino Giacomazzi. (Photo: Paolo Vescia)
Conservation Agriculture: Article

Hanford farmer Dino Giacomazzi receives Leopold Conservation Award

December 14, 2012
By Jeannette Warnert
Hanford dairy farmer Dino Giacomazzi, a founding member of UC Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI), received the prestigious 2012 Leopold Conservation Award for California in acknowledgement of his exemplary land stewardship and management.
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ONE: A sole honey bee visits a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Going for the Roses

December 13, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Just call it going for the roses. Or a hot spot. In between the showers and the sunshine, the bees at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis, emerge from their hives to forage.
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E-Journal of Entomology and Biologicals: Article

Label amendment approved for Rimon 0.83EC

December 13, 2012
Novaluron (Rimon 0.83 EC, Chemtura USA Corp, Middlebury, CT) is a popular insecticide used by the strawberry growers for managing nymphal stages of the lygus bug.
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Sign at the entrance to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis depicts honey bees, a skep, DNA and almond blossoms. It is the work of Donna Billick of Davis (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

'A' Is for Almonds; 'B' is for Bees

December 12, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's the Big 4-0 for the Almond Board of California's annual almond industry conference this week. Some 1000 convention-goers are gathering in the Sacramento Convention Center. The 40th annual conference opened Tuesday, Dec. 11 and runs through Thursday, Dec. 13.
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