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To help control ants inside, wipe them up, along with their chemical trails, with an all-purpose cleaner, and fill tiny gaps, cracks and holes with caulk to make their entry difficult.
Green Blog: Article

Controlling ants the healthy way

July 24, 2020
By Jeannette Warnert
Spotting ants in the home or yard is no reason to reach for insecticide sprays or call an exterminator. UC Cooperative Extension experts say the insects can be managed by residents in ways that are effective, inexpensive, safe and environmentally kind. Ants are probably the No.
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Cuckoo Wasps

July 24, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Bright metallic colors, flitting from flower to flower. Wasps. And they are going after other wasp species and bees. It's hard being a bee. These wasps are parasites, and like their namesake cuckoo birds, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species (wasps or bees in this case).
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Sunburn tomato, J. Alosi
The Real Dirt: Article

Are Your Tomatoes Feeling the Heat?

July 24, 2020
It's hot. Tomatoes like heat, right? Actually, tomatoes like warm weather, between 65 and 85 degrees. When temperatures soar past 95, tomatoes stop growing. In that kind of heat, their flowers fail to pollinate and instead they dry up and drop off, putting a pause on the production of new fruit.
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Grower Cliff Sponsell and George Goodall, right, at Sponsell Ranch in Santa Barbara, looking at Duke cutting replant in an avocado root rot grove in 1977.
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In memoriam: George Goodall

July 23, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
George Goodall, emeritus UCCE farm advisor and county director, passed away June 22, 2020, at age 98. A fourth-generation Southern Californian, Goodall grew up on a diversified farm in Canoga Park.
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Sunburned leaves. (Jack Kelly Clark, UC IPM)
The Stanislaus Sprout: Article

Protect Trees from Sunburn

July 23, 2020
By Anne E Schellman
Did you know that plants can suffer sunburn injury just like people? Sunburning of plants is actually a common and serious problem in the San Joaquin Valley, especially after a few days with temperatures over 100 F.
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This image by Keith Waldron shows rootworm damage. The corn rootworm is a billion-dollar pest.
Bug Squad: Article

UC Davis Researcher and Colleagues Target 'Billion-Dollar Pest'

July 23, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you like corn, you should be concerned about a pest that's known as "the billion-dollar beetle." The Western corn rootworm is called that because its larvae ravage America's corn crops to the economic tune of $1 billion a year.
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