Test PB Collection: FTE

They didn't get the memo. Summer is over. Fall is underway. Winter is coming (Dec. 21). But the Gulf Fritillaries (Agraulis vanillae) are still laying eggs on the passionflower vine here in Vacaville, Calif. The eggs are hatching. The caterpillars are eating. The 'cats are pupating.

Beauveria bassiana is a soilborne entomopathogenic fungus which offers plant protection as a pathogen of arthropod pests (Feng et al., 1994; Dara, 2015).

Ever seen a stag beetle? You know, that curious-looking male beetle with mandibles that resemble deer antlers? Now you can not only see a stag beetle, you can wear one. In fact, four of them.

UC IPM Advisor, Pete Goodell, requests your assistance with an alfalfa IPM survey. How much IPM is being used in alfalfa in California? A new survey tool wants to help answer that question and we need your help.

Table 1 shows the results of the 2016 UCCE Delta field corn variety trial, located on Tyler Island. Three replicate blocks of eighteen varieties were planted on April 27th by air planter.

Calcareous soils have often more than 15% CaCO3 in the soil that may occur in various forms (powdery, nodules, crusts etc). They are relatively widespread in the drier areas of the earth.

You have just moved into an apartment that has been vacant for weeks but whose prior owners had several cats and dogs. A very few days after you move in you are bitten by a huge number of cat fleas that seem to have appeared out of nowhere.

Those amazing monarch butterflies! We're looking forward to a seminar on UC Davis-based research on monarchs in the Pacific Islands.

Entomology Specialist and Lindcove Research and Education Center Director keeps her Asian Citrus Psyllid website for homeowners up-to-date at: http://ucanr.edu/sites/ACP/Homeowner_Options/Homeowner_Resources/ Check it out.

California Surveying and Drafting recently installed a GPS/GLONASS base station antenna on McCone Hall and to reciprocate theyre allowing Berkeley researchers to use the real-time correction signal for free.