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"If you were a bug, what would you be?" That sign greets visitors to the California State Fair's Insect Pavilion. It's a good conservation starter. The Insect Pavilion showcases insect specimens and insects from the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis.

By Jean Fried A California-European Union workshop on sustainable groundwater management and conflict resolution was held June 24-25, 2019 at the University of California, Irvine.

Soil solarization is a simple technique that you can use in your home garden to reduce or eliminate many soil-inhabiting pests. Solarization works by heating up the soil in the presence of moisture to temperatures that are high enough to kill many fungi, nematodes, weeds and weed seeds.

When wildfires burn in California, people often call them forest fires or brushfires, but the odds are high that an invasive weed is an unrecognized fuels component, says a UC Agriculture and Natural Resources scientist.

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Consumers once asked Pat Crawford how to determine the amount of added sugar in foods if the labels only list total sugar.

July 19, 2019 Two junior-year students at Washington Union High School in Easton, CA, Sophia Garcia and Lilliana Ruiz, successfully completed their two-week internship with the Wonderful Company at UC ANR's Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center.

July 21, 2019 Twenty-six videos on vegetable production are now available at the UC ANR You Tube channel, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLjlfxpbNglYF2m7tvApfiR5NXParpvGP.

By T. Eric Nightingale, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Gardening is fun, of that there is little doubt. It begins with a trip to the nursery, picking out those perfect plants from the multitudes of foliage. Then the dirty work begins.

Dear Colleagues, My ANR Budget Update 2019-20 provided an overview of our budget challenges and described actions we have taken or may take in response to shrinking financial support from the state.