Ongoing research

... well, a new name and new uses for a familiar product anyway. I received a notification today that Dow AgroSciences received California registration for TrellisTM herbicide for use in grapes and tree nuts.

Countywide Achievement Night, National 4-H Week, Home Ec Leaders meeting, New Leader Orientations, Final day to enroll is November 1st.

A new weed has been identified in California rice. Its name is winged primrose willow (WPW), and it is a weed in rice fields in the southern US. So far this weed has been identified only in fields near Richvale.

The times, they change. Standard textbook knowledge, that can change, too. It did today.

The mighty Monarch butterfly and the industrious honey bee. How rare we see them together on the same flower. But that was the case last Friday at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden planted next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.

It's a matter of A, B, C. "A" is for Argentina. "B" is for bees. And "C" is for Cobey.

A new weed has been identified in California rice. Its name is winged primrose willow (WPW), and it is a weed in rice fields in the southern US. So far this weed has been identified only in fields near Richvale.

Weed alert: new weed identified in California rice.

Will the real honey bee stand up? Not all bees are honey bees and not all floral visitors that look like bees are bees. Sometimes they're flies. A recent trip to the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.

It all begins at the Bohart. The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis, that is. Officials at the museum, located at 1124 Academic Surge on California Drive, have just announced the complete list of weekend openings for the 2011-2012 academic year.