Happy Thanksgiving! You get two In The Garden with UC Master Gardeners Show Radio hosts in one show this week! Our show hosts Bill Brooks and Mark Oertel got together very recently to swap notes on one of the favorite cooking dates of the year. Listen in this Thanksgiving morning as they combine their…
Blog by Paula PashbyA few years ago, I wrote a blog about one of my favorite plants in our garden: the Brugmansia suaveolens, also known as the Angel's Trumpet. I purchased the plant around 20 years ago and gave it to my mom, who took care of it with love. When she passed away, we transplanted the…
The annual Yule blog...Back in 2010, UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (1944-2022) of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and yours truly, department communications specialist, wondered why no insects appear in "The Twelve Days of ChristmasZero. Zilch…
A beautiful way to add color to your garden in winter and early spring is to plant hellebores. These perennials grow low to the ground in clumps usually no more than one- and one-half feet high, with distinctive leathery, dark-green leaves. Their flowers, about two inches across, appear in clusters that…
Remember Cole Cramer and Connor Hsu, the two Southern California insect enthusiasts who met as pre-teens at the 2022 Bio Boot Camp at UC Davis? They became fast friends, joined professional entomological societies, and formed a youth entomology group, the Lorquin Society…
2025 has been a rough year for the honey bees and their keepers. Reports of extreme colony mortality began in January, just before the almond bloom which requires the pollination services of an estimated 1.5 million colonies (Fenton, et al., 2025). As of July, honey bee colonies have reportedly dwindled by…
I was in a citrus orchard in San Diego recently with some colleagues, looking for sap-sucking hemipterans to run an experiment. I kept getting distracted, however, by some small flies. They were shiny, bright yellow with black stripes, like a miniature, polished hoverfly. Every tree I inspected in this…
Avocado pollination is a little-understood process influenced by flower biology, environmental conditions, and pollinator behavior. Our study from UC Cooperative Extension and UC Davis aims to shed light on the complexity of avocado pollination and the role of various insect species in enhancing fruit set…
The registration label for Sivano use against Pink Hibiscus Mealybug (Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)) was approved by DPR last year. The label can be found at the following link, with dates listed on page 18:https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/agrian-cg-fs1-production/pdfs/Sivanto…
Steering members participate in efficient, well-facilitated monthly meetings, occasional subcommittee meetings, and infrequent strategic planning sessions. Many also help with designing and running the Spring and Fall workshops, and coordinating and advising the CCRC Forum Scholarship program as well.Current…
