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In this issue: Welcome Kate! Our new Community Education Specialist has arrived.

A perfect perch. A young male variegated meadowhawk dragonfly, Sympetrum corruptum, found a perfect perch--a seed ball of Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) in our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif. It towered over the garden and so did he.

A Unique Data Science Summit Yesterday, several of us in the IGIS Program participated remotely in a very interesting summit on data science in agriculture.

So here it is Monday, Oct. 10 and the monarch butterflies are still laying eggs on our milkweed in Vacaville, Calif. "Mrs. October" fluttered down to our tropical milkweed at 4:30 p.m. today and began laying eggs on three tropical milkweeds (Asclepias curassavica).

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) runs the most extensive Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program in the nation and is hard at work ensuring that the fruit and vegetables we purchase and consume are free from illegal pesticide residues.

Knocking Out Noxious Weeds on Rangelands 11/9/2016 Woodland, CA 11/16/2016 Salinas, CA 11/17/2016 Fresno, CA 12/13/2016 Eureka, CA 12/14/2016 Susanville, CA http://www.knockoutweeds.

This just in for Halloween! Ever seen a false black widow spider? Commonly known as the cupboard spider, it's a semi-cosmopolitan spider that's often confused with the "real" black widow spider, known for its powerful venom.

Late bloomers. Late eaters. Monarch butterflies are migrating now, but we're still finding a few caterpillars in our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif.

Today was WebGIS and the Geoweb (I know, we could do a whole semester), and rounded up some nice resources. Open Street Map interactions (from Vanessa):Here is Overpass Turbo, the OSM data filtering site. https://overpass-turbo.

Have you ever wondered how climate change affects bees? Honey bees and native bees? You can find out Wednesday, Oct. 12 at a program on "Bees and Climate Change at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, located on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus. The event, set from noon to 1:30 p.