Test PB Collection: FTE

You've heard the expression, "On a wing and a prayer." It apparently originated during World War II. Remember the 1942 film, "The Flying Tigers," starring John Wayne as Capt.

If you're rearing monarchs or offering them a way station of nectar-producing flowers in your yard, there's one thing you don't want to see: A praying mantis nailing a monarch. That's when the "pollinator friendly garden" seems more like a "predator friendly garden." It's not by chance.

Sometimes the unexpected happens. Take the case of the female praying mantis delivered to the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, for an educational display.

Thanks for the rains that leach the soils of accumulated salts and bring on new fresh growth. Or maybe not. When we apply irrigation water with salts which with few exceptions we do in irrigated agriculture, salts accumulate in the soil.

From the UC Davis Dateline October 25, 2016 We're getting into the weeds in this storyto tell you that weed expert Joe DiTomaso has been named the recipient of this year's James. H. Meyer Distinguished Achievement Award.

Marek Borowiec's world revolves around myrmecology, the scientific study of ants.

Ed Stover and crew at USDA, Fort Pierce in Florida have been studying the response of different scions and rootstocks that have been inoculated with the HLB bacteria. As reported in the Proceedings of the International Citrus Conference (http://www.icc2016.

California Cattlemen's Association is hosting a workshop series titled, "Surviving Drought Risk Management." The first workshop is called, "Navigating California's Complex Water Regulations.

Is there life after lawn? Yes. If you're looking for plants to attract pollinators, including bees and butterflies, then the UC Davis Arboretum's Plant Sale on Saturday, Oct. 22 is the place to "bee." A public fall clearance sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The UC ANR Academic Personnel Unit has begun recruitment for the Area CE Advisor for Agronomic Cropping Systems/Weed Science serving Glenn, Butte and Tehama Counties.