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Are you interested in learning about the management of sap-sucking pests and ants in citrus orchards? Lindcove is organizing a full-day workshop to bring you recent research advances on sap-sucking insects and ant management. The workshop will focus on ants.

Have you read the excessive heat warnings and the guidelines to prevent heat illnesses as triple-digit temperatures hold us hostage in Yolo and Solano counties and elsewhere?. UC Davis Safety Services related this week: Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

Make the Most of Your Shopping Trip; Sheet Pan Teriyaki Chicken and Pineapple Fried Rice Recipe.

I have received a handful of calls this season with concerns about trash bugs, a catch all term for various soil invertebrates. These soil invertebrates include root maggots, springtails, bulb mites, and symphylans, all which will happily feed on decomposing plant debris, i.e., trash.

NOTE: the editor made an error and submitted this blog under another master gardener's name. Kay Lauterbach is the author of Foxtails. It seems these days that it is hard to find something on which everyone can agree. But I may have just found it foxtails. I hate them.

As we all wait for this summer's offering of fresh fruits and veggies, (I am craving homegrown tomatoes), I happened to find some interesting recipe ideas that would complete a gift basket of your fresh garden bounty.

Drupe, n. In Botany a drupe is a simple fleshy fruit with a single pit or stone that contains the seed. A simple fruit is formed from a pollinated ovary of a single flower. The fertilized ovary grows producing a fleshy fruit with the hardened shell in the center.