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Days are cooler and rain may be coming. Fires continue to burn. We are keeping good thoughts for our first responders and everyone in these areas living with smoke, evacuations and uncertainty. Last week Program Council reviewed the UC Master Gardener Program.

The IGIS Team is pleased to share our workshop schedule for Fall 2022. Workshops are the best part of our 'trilogy' of strategic goals - research, technical projects, and training - because this is where we get to share the tips and tricks we pick up every day.

To be a fly on Friday, what a day! Entomologists who came up with "Friday Fly Day" are having a lot of fun posting images on social media of flies on Friday. If you access WikiHow, "What to Do on a Friday Night," you'll find all kinds of suggestions.

The UC Davis Staff Assembly recently honored dozens of outstanding employees, including entomologist Brennen Dyer, a laboratory assistant at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, and computer specialist Rasilind Berks, formerly of the Phoenix Cluster Information Technology (IT) team that serves the Depar...

Dear members of the Monterey County 4-H Leaders Council, On Tuesday, September 20th the 4-H Leaders Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7pm. This will be an in-person meeting at the Ag Conference room, 1432 Abbot St, Salinas.

Pollinators are essential to many of California's agricultural crops and to the vast biodiversity of California's natural ecosystems. Unfortunately, due to a variety of factors including habitat destruction, pesticides, disease, and climate change pollinators are in decline.

Meetings & Announcements A New and Free Publication on Principles of Xeriscape Pruning Shade Trees Tree Care Accidents...

We have endured multiple years of drought, and are probably in store for more. For many of us, it makes sense to replace all or part of our lawn area with less water-intensive plantings.

This spring I was reading an article about drought-tolerant gardens and the authors were singing the praises of the Chaste Tree, Vitex agnus-castus. They were extolling its virtues, particularly its flowers, which can range from white to light blue to lavender.

All year long, we've been waiting for those majestic monarchs to visit our pollinator garden in Vacaville, as they have in the past 10 years or so. One year (2020), they deposited more than 300 eggs on our milkweed. But this year? Zero. Zilch. Nada. Where are you? Dawn. Noon. Dusk.