Test PB Collection: FTE

It's all over the news...the Aedes aeypti, the daytime-biting mosquito that predominantly feeds on humans.

Recently some 'W. Murcott' mandarins were shown to me. Brown spots in the core of the fruit. Another problem caused by drought and lack of leaching rains.

After four years of drought, turfgrass has taken a beating. Some people have turned off the waterthe turf has turned into a few patches of grass, but mostly weeds, if anything is growing at all (Figure 1.

Erythrina caffra is a spring-flowering landscape tree. (Photo by Don Hodel) The Erythrina stem borer (ESB) (sometimes known as the Erythrina twig borer) (Terastia meticulosalis), a potentially devastating pest of Erythrina spp.

The Pajaro Compass is a group of conservationists, natural resources managers, ranchers, and farmers who are interested in conservation of the Pajaro River Watershed.

Shades of Shirley Temple, maybe? A curly haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis could have been named for...drum roll..Shirley Temple. The curly haired tarantula, or Brachypelma albopilosum, proved a big hit at the Bohart Museum on Saturday, Feb.

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Of the approximately 200 tree species that can be attacked by the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer, about 100 of those species can be colonized by the Fusarium fungus that actually goes on to kill the tree. This from a host of researchers at UC Riverside.

What a treat to find not one--but five yellow-faced bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii) foraging on a rosemary hedge on Valentine's Day. Feb. 14 was a perfect day for foragers, as the temperature climbed into the '70s, an unusually warm February day. The site: The Glen Cove Marina in Vallejo, Calif.

"Got 'em!" That's the message we've all been waiting for.