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There's more to Sonoma County's Bodega Head than the stunning views, crashing waves, nesting seabirds, and bursts of flora and fauna. The sand cliffs are also the home of a digger bee, a bumble bee mimic known as Anthophora bomboides stanfordiana.

Lake Tahoe is known for its beautiful blue waters and remarkable transparency. But its clarity is threatened by climate change and urbanization and billions of tiny invasive shrimp.

In July many areas of the Central Sierra can expect to see tomatoes beginning to appear in local markets or ripening in gardens. This much-awaited crop is one of the best foods to enjoy in season, when its flavor is truly at its peak.

The first plants that come to my mind when I hear nitrogen fixers, are beans and peas of the legume family. Their roots have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria in the soil that gathers nitrogen from the air and converts it into a form of nitrogen that plants can use.

Argentine Ant Management in Citrus (July 8, 2020) Dr. Mark Hoddle will talk about how to monitor and manage Argentine ant in citrus orchards with liquid baiting systems and discuss why ant management has such strong benefits for the suppression of sap-sucking pests by natural enemies.

En California, a diferencia de otros estados en el pas, no haba regulacin alguna para el uso del agua subterrnea, pero eso cambi tras la sequa y sus estragos, el agotamiento de algunos acuferos y la consiguiente promulgacin de una ley para enfrentar una situacin crtica.

While many of you are preparing for the 4th of July holiday, we at UC IPM are also thinking about stars and stripes but in a slightly different way: yellow starthistle and striped skunks.

I see garden escapees whenever I go for a walk: canna lilies at Quarry Park, Mexican Feather Grass infiltrating coastal bluffs, and Agapanthus above Montara beach. When such escapees are not native to the area but are able to survive and reproduce on their own, they are considered naturalized.

Carefully resuming in-person activities UC ANR issued Stage 2 Safety Standards on May 20. Since then, many California counties have begun to modify stay-at-home orders to allow for additional lower risk activities to resume under advanced Stage 2 of the California resilience roadmap.

Dear Colleagues, The National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Engineering requests applications for the Disaster Resilience Research Grants (DRRG) program with a letter of intent deadline of August 14, 2020.