You've probably already "put a bug" in Santa's ear, telling him what you want. But have you ever thought of putting a bug on your holiday card? If you're an entomologist, absolutely. If you like insects, probably. If you're not a bug lover, no.
Working in concert with the California Nursery industry and PlantRight, the UCCE Master Gardeners participated in an on the ground nursery survey to track the retail market for garden related invasive plants in California.
Horticulture is the cultivation of plants as ornamentals or for the production of food. When things go wrong (plants grow poorly or not at all), horticulturists sometimes turn to products that can cure, revitalize, invigorate, stimulate or enhance the growth of their plant or crop.
A neighbor asked me to identify a robust perennial that keeps coming up in his garden. It had long, tropical-looking leaves and floppy racemes with small white flowers. This was a new one for me. Turned out it was common pokeweed (Phytolacca americana), a native of eastern North America.
You like ants, right? Of course you do. But probably not as much as Andrea Lucky, the "Queen of Ants." (Or as much as Phil Ward, her major professor at UC Davis or Alex Wild, the Illinois-based biologist and insect photographer who also studied with Ward.
The temperature on the UC Davis campus stood solidly at 56 degrees this afternoon. The less-than-ideal weather didn't seem to deter several Italian honey bees from foraging in a flower bed behind the Laboratory Sciences Building on the central campus.
Someone recently brought specimens of what they thought were bed bugs. Actually they are larvae of carpet beetle. Here is a brief note about them. Carpet beetles belong to the Coleopteran family of Dermestidae, which are commonly known as dermestid or skin beetles.
PULLMAN, Wash. -- Ann Kennedy leaned forward over her desk, the better to share her exitement. "We're talking about a bacterium that could change the fabric of the lands of the West," she said. "It could change how the West looks.
If you missed the Honey! event sponsored by the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science and held recently in the UC Davis Conference Center, not to worry. James R.
