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ANR welcomes its most recent FAA certified drone pilots: The entire IGIS Team!

March 29, 2017
By Maggi Kelly, Andy Lyons, Sean D Hogan, Robert Johnson, Shane T Feirer
March was busy month for the IGIS team. We started out with only one member of our group (Sean Hogan) being a FAA certified drone pilot, and ended the month with the rest of the team - Maggi, Shane, Robert, and Andy - having also obtained their FAA Remote Pilot License with sUAS Rating.
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Helicoptering in on the Spanish Lavender

March 28, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you like writing with light (photography), then you'll probably love capturing images of honey bees spinning like helicopters. In the late afternoon, when the light softens, head over to your favorite Spanish lavender patch.
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A Summit to Save the Butterflies

March 27, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Let's wing it, they said. And they did. But this event wasn't "winged"; it was well planned and rooted in educational information. Wings? A reference to the flutter of the ever decreasing butterfly wings.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Tree and Vine Herbicide Registration chart update

March 27, 2017
By Brad Hanson
A quick note to share a link to our (semi) regularly updated "Herbicide Registration on California Tree and Vine Crops". Click here for a link to the PDF version on the Weed Research and Information Center page (this is probably your best bet for the most up-to-date version).
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Position re-advertised: IR-4 Regional Associate Director/Field Research Coordinator

March 27, 2017
By Brad Hanson
A position announcement I shared in October (http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=22336) was re-released last week. The new search ends on April 18, 2017. Job announcement for the Associate Director / Field Research Coordinator for the Western Region IR-4 Program.
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There's Gold on Them Thar Roses

March 24, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
There's gold on them thar roses. No, not the kind of gold found during the California Gold Rush (18481855) that brought some 300,000 folks to the Golden State. These are gold eggs from the multicolored Asian beetle, Harmonia axyridis, that we found on our Sparkle-and-Shine roses last week.
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