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Somehow we missed having this posted for June 20. Catch up now! Article for June 27 will be posted June 29. By Pat Hitchcock, U. C. Master Gardener of Napa County Plant some beans! Warm settled weather found me planting beans in the garden.

Picture this during National Pollinator Week: five monarch caterpillars and assorted honey bees sharing tropical milkweed. It was love at first bite. Or love at first sip. The 'cats kept munching and the bees kept foraging. Neither species seemed interested in the other.

In this issue: Advisor Farewell Pre-Harvest Walnut Orchard Management Managing Mold in Walnuts Ethephon in a Straggled Leaf-Out, Lean Price Year Managing Walnut Orchards for Insect-Eating Birds...

I had a good patch of California Poppies (Eschscholzia californica) that had just finished flowering when I noticed the foliage on one of them was somewhat grayer in color than its neighbors. I did not think much of it at the time and put it down to being some sort of natural variant.

This year has brought many changes to our personal and professional lives especially in how it has changed how we interact.

The Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences program in the Central Sierra values community health and health equity, and recognizes that these goals will never be achieved as long as racism and structural inequality persist in our communities and in our country.

Normally at this time of Year, I am getting ready to travel to San Diego for the ESRI User Conference. At the user conference 20,000 people from all over the world gather to hear about what new GIS tools and functionality ESRI is building into their GIS products.

Fireproof your landscape for a safe fire season!...

Three leafhopper species--western grape, variegated and Virginia creeper--are present in Napa vineyards. Both variegated and Virginia creeper are invasive species, whose range has expanded considerably in Napa in the last 10 years.

Following a tip generated by citizen scientists in the Porterville/Tulare area, UC ANR researchers have installed traps to determine the potential for Velvet longhorned beetle, Trichoferus campestris (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), introduction to the southern San Joaquin Valley.