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Avocado Pest Discussion – trying to stay one step ahead

October 4, 2017
By Sonia I Rios
The University of California Cooperative Extension conducted an Avocado Pest Management Round Table grower meeting in Fallbrook, CA on September 28, 2017. Approximately 64 growers, industry, Pest Control Advisors, and other stakeholders were present.
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Find the Praying Mantids in the Milkweed

October 3, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's 6 a.m. Do you know where your praying mantids are? Well, yes. Two of them. Just before dawn broke, we walked around our pollinator (and prey) garden and spotted a pencil-thin male mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, silhouetted on the milkweed.
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Bug Squad: Article

Intriguing Topic: Social Evolution in Social Insects

October 2, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Intriguing topic: social evolution in social insects... The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology has booked associate professor of biology Tim Linksvayer of the University of Pennsylvania for a seminar on Genomic Signatures of Social Evolution in Social Insects" on Wednesday, Oct. 4.
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bacterial-citricola canker
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Here Come the Cankers

October 2, 2017
By Ben A Faber
Avocado Trunk Cankers 2016/17 was a normal rainfall year in the avocado growing region of California. But this was on top of lots of winters with such low rain amounts that there was not adequate salt leaching. No rain, no leaching.
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Bug Squad: Article

Handing Over the Bees!

September 29, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Beekeepers circled biologist Randy Oliver, commercial beekeeper, scientist, writer and educator, as he held court in the apiary of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California,Davis.
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Lassen Farm Advisor's Update

September 29, 2017
By Gale Perez
Here's the latest issue of the Lassen Farm Advisor's Update newsletter from Tom Getts, Weed Ecology and Cropping Systems Farm Advisor.
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barnacle scale from Ojai
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Invasive Scale?

September 29, 2017
By Ben A Faber
Recently a grower called up with a beautiful scale that the PCA couldn't identify. I could just marvel at the beauty of it and wondered what in the heck it was. It didn't look like any scale I had seen in the area and others who were queried didn't know either.
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pollen grain
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Is that Why I Sneeze in the Lemon Orchard?

September 29, 2017
By Ben A Faber
IMAGE: Orbicules or "Ubisch bodies " (300 - 600nm granules), characteristics of Cupressaceae pollen, are visible on the surface of the exine (outer membrane).
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