Test PB Collection: FTE

Here is this week's plant quiz: What plant genus has square branches, comes in an enormous variety of sizes and flower types and is drought tolerant once established? The answer is Salvia, a large group whose members we commonly refer to as sages.

So here's this female praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, camouflaged on a narrow-leaf milkweed, Asclepias fasciculari, in a Vacaville garden. If she thinks she's going to ambush a monarch, she has another think coming. No monarchs in the garden. If she thinks she's going to ambush a bee, no way.

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When the weather is hot outside, pests are likely to search for cool, sheltered areas such as inside your home. But that doesn't mean it's time to spray pesticides.

Nutrition Policy Institute Director Dr. Lorrene Ritchie presents at the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, SNEB, 2024 international conference.

The victims: In late June, wilting was observed above one stem near the top of the tomato plant. On closer inspection, a hole was bored below the wilting in a single stem and a hole in a nearby tomato. The autopsy: Evidence of tunneling and frass or caterpillar waste.

Farm Advisor UCCE Ventura County Plants, therefore avocados, go through different growth stages, so called phenological stages, regular periods where they grow and differentiate from seed to various vegetative stages, flowering and finally seed production.

Catch up on the TLC for your houseplants. Fertilize house plants lightly, repot as necessary and replace soil. Tasks Water citrus on a regular schedule to maintain even soil moisture. Continuously wet soil in the upper few inches risks root rot.

Are your tomatoes not looking their beautiful best this year? They may be suffering from blossom end rot. Blossom end rot first appears as a small, water-soaked spot on the blossom end of a tomato. The spot enlarges, darkens, and becomes sunken and leathery.

2024 seems like a year of citricola scale. This season, pest control advisors have reported significant numbers of citricola scale in the San Joaquin Valley. Citricola scale, a soft bodied scale insect is sap sucking pest of citrus that thrives in cooler temperatures.