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Aphids are the most frequent pests of orchards. You may notice the apple tree leaves are curled up, and when you open the leaves, you'll see a mass of small gray insects. The gray aphids are common everywhere. Their bodies are covered with small gray scales with ash bloom.

When most people think of hydroponics, they think of growingwell, cannabis. However, hydroponics is a great method for growing all kinds of herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Hydroponics involves growing plants in a water and mineral nutrient solution without soil.

By Pat Hitchcock, UC Master Gardener of Napa County One of the pleasures of having a large, messy vegetable garden is that plants that get ignored past their useful life as an edible still have value. I've learned this slowly over time.

It's a thought-provoking podcast that you won't want to miss.

A "Natural History Note" From UC California Naturalist's lead scientist, Dr. Cameron Barrows.

The armyworm monitoring network started a few weeks ago. We have traps on 15 sites across the Sacramento Valley and three sites in the northern San Joaquin Valley.

I had a great interview the other day with Taylor Chalstrom of JCS Marketing about our burgeoning Fusarium disease outbreak in strawberry. I am more than a little unsettled by the lack of internal industry funding going towards this serious and growing problem.

Attached are two pistachio specific articles: large bug control and irrigation considerations during a drought year.

Yesterday was a historic moment as President Biden signed into law Juneteenth as a federal holiday! The Black community has long celebrated Juneteenth marking the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Blacks in Texas on June 19, 1865 two and a half years after it was signed by President...

We're pleased to announce that a new online course on managing ground squirrels and pocket gophers has been added to UC IPM's growing library of online training courses. This course consists of eight video segments recorded by Dr.