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It's "bee" time! Make that "time for healthy bees!" Registration is underway for the fourth annual UC Davis Bee Symposium: Keeping Bees Healthy, set Saturday, March 3 in the UC Davis Conference Room on Alumni Drive.

Last week, we kicked off our 11th annual Farm and Ranch Business Planning Short Course. Every Thursday night for the next six weeks, a group of local farmers and ranchers will come together to discuss and learn about operating an economically viable agricultural business.

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Today, I really outdid myself in the carting part of the newest project at Casa de Buxton (also known among the residents as the back yard). I was/am tired of walking through slippery mud to get to the fly-away canes dangling from the pergola and over the fence into the neighbor's yard.

UC ANR Administrative Orientation for new employees May 23, 2018 ANR will hold another administrative orientation in the spring. The May 23, 2018, orientation is intended for new staff and academics. For more information, academics may contact Tina Jordan at tljordan@ucanr.

VP Glenda Humiston, 4-H member Melina Granados of Riverside County and UC Chancellor Dorothy Leland gave the UC regents a presentation about UC ANR's community outreach and impact.

Please join us for the 7th Annual Citrus Field Day, designed for citrus growers and citrus industry representatives. Pending approval, we will be offering 5.0 hours of California Continuing Education Credit for Pest Control Advisers (PCA).

A praying mantis here. A lady beetle there. A sawtoothed-grain beetle there. Entomologist-artist Karissa Merritt kept busy at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on Insects and Art last Sunday, Jan. 21 as she demonstrated how to draw insects.

We've had some rain in our area lately so you are probably seeing some weeds starting to grow in your garden or lawn. Among the few new weeds poking out in my landscape is dandelion, my husband's least favorite weed on Earth.

One of dissertation chapters of Kevin Welzel (former PhD student in Choe Laboratory) is now officially published. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-19435-6 Check out following news article to learn more about the research.