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2022 UCCE advisor positions released for recruitment

March 14, 2022
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
I am thrilled to announce another monumental milestone to grow UC ANR's Cooperative Extension footprint 48 more CE Advisor positions will be recruited over the next 12 months! Thanks to the increased 2021-22 state funding, the 2021 Call for CE Positions has concluded.
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Reading Up on Citrus ACP and HLB

March 14, 2022
By Ben A Faber
Translating the science of managing HLB Your resource for learning about existing and new tools being developed by researchers to protect and manage citrus from the causative agent of huanglongbing (HLB).
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Agapanthus frost damage
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Frost Protection

March 14, 2022
by Mel Kendall How many of you have gone to bed only to kick yourself in the morning when you get up and see a white, icy garden and have to face the frost damage to your plants? Frost does sneak up, that is a given.
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Four projects receive Hrdy funding

March 11, 2022
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Thanks to the generosity of the Hrdy family, we are pleased to announce that four proposals have been selected for funding through The Daniel & Sarah Hrdy Fund for UC Cooperative Extension Research.
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Three nematologists kept busy at their booth at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. In front is coordinator Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, and his doctoral students Pallavi Shakya (nearest him) and Alison Coomer. In the back (far right) is Rob Blundell, not part of the lab, but who assisted. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Nematode Booth Wows Crowd at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day

March 11, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Nematodes! The display of nematodes (aka "roundworms") at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Center, drew scores of curious visitors. Many were dog owners with an interest in heartworms.
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4-H Leader's Council March 15th, 2022

March 11, 2022
Dear Members of the Monterey County 4-H Leaders Council, On Tuesday, March 15th, the 4-H Leaders Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7pm. The location will beat 1432 Abbott St, Salinas. All 4-H families are invited to attend and take part in the councils discussion and planning.
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This image of a squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, appears in the article, "The Plight of the Pollinators," in the March edition of the UC Davis Magazine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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UC Davis Entomologists Weigh in on 'Plight of the Pollinators'

March 11, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Several UC Davis scientists, including Professor Lynn Kimsey, and Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Nio of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, weighed in on "The Plight of the Pollinators," in an informative article by Ula Chrobak in the March edition of UC Davis Magazine, edited...
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Doggone Right
Under the Solano Sun: Article

Stop the Fake it Only Bakes

March 11, 2022
Every day on my walk I'm seeing more and more people installing the fake green grass. This artificial grass is not environmentally friendly. After 15-20 years, it gets put into the landfill because it is old. There are concerns about toxic runoff from the crumb rubber infill.
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Citrus Has an Immune Response to HLB

March 11, 2022
By Ben A Faber
LAKE ALFRED, Fla. Sometimes in science, a new perspective brings an a ha! moment. That's what one senior researcher at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences believes happened with his latest research on Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening.
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Anna's hummingbird in Upper Bidwell Park, William Kees
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The Hummingbird – A Gem of the Americas

March 11, 2022
A true treasure of the Americas, hummingbirds are a diverse family of more than 340 species, only 17 of which are found north of Mexico. They are also keystone mutualists, nectar feeders that have coevolved with the indigenous plants they pollinate.
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