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UC Rice Blog: Article

Management of Rice Seed Midge - Insecticide Trial Results

March 20, 2024
By Consuelo B Baez Vega, Taiyu Guan, Ian M Grettenberger
Rice seed midge damage was first officially recorded in California rice production in 1953, and this pest is actually a number of different species that are frequently lumped together in terms of defining them as a pest. Midges are some of the first colonizers of freshly flooded rice fields.
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It's spring! A honey bee heads toward a Virginia stock blossom, Malcolmia maritima. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Take Stock: It's the First Day of Spring

March 19, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Take stock of your flowers and pollinators; today is the first day of spring. If Virginia stock, Malcolmia maritima, is blooming in your garden now, you'll likely be seeing honey bees, syrphid flies and other pollinators. M.
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Barbara Vartan holds a photo of herself as a toddler enjoying the backyard at what is now the Clark/Kendrick home. (Photo: Sarah del Pozo)
Fresno Gardening Green: Article

Spring Garden Tour a trip down memory lane for one Master Gardener

March 19, 2024
When Master Gardener Barbara Vartan learned a historical two-story home on Carmen Street in Fresno was part of the 2024 Spring Garden Tour, she knew where she wanted to volunteer. The 102-year-old home in the heart of the Wilson Historical Tract was the backdrop for her idyllic post-war childhood.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Branched broomrape: what we want to avoid in CA

March 19, 2024
By Brad Hanson
Last week, I had a chance to visit research cooperators in Chile and tour some of their processing tomato fields with serious infestations of the parasitic weed, branched broomrape and it was really eye opening for me.
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