Test PB Collection: FTE

Cal-IPC, in partnership with toxicologist Susan Kegley of the Pesticide Research Institute, has published a new manual on "Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Wildland Stewardship: Protecting Wildlife When Using Herbicides for Invasive Plant Management.

UC Cooperative Extension annually sponsors four rice grower meetings in the Sacramento Valley. This year, the meetings will be held on Tuesday, January 19th and Wednesday, January 20th. The schedule and locations are as follows: Richvale: Tuesday, Jan.

The following management recommendations consider the SNAMP focal resources as an integrated group. These recommendations were developed by the UC Science Team working together.

The SNAMP UC Science Team worked together to develop 31 integrated management recommendations at the conclusion of our SNAMP project. The following deal specifically with lidar and vegetation mapping. All 31 can be found here. All our SNAMP spatial publications can be found here.

SNAMP field trip: photo from Shufei LeiFull press release: http://ucanr.

If you've ever tried to rear monarch butterflies, you may have encountered a caterpillar parasitized by a tachinid fly, which oviposits or injects its eggs into it. The fly's life cycle continues, but the host dies. The tachinid fly is a parasitoid.

I get a call. He: My trees not doing well. Me: What's the problem? He: It's yellow? Me: Have you looked at the roots? Are there roots? He: NO Me: I'll be out next week, but in the meantime, look at the root system.

All the media are full of stories about the impending El Nino effects and possible flooding rains in California. As I write this, it is the day before our first significant storm (Jan. 4) with a 100% chance of rain throughout Ventura county for tomorrow.

What's the status of the "Beer for a Butterfly" Contest? Do we have a winner? Well, there's good news and there's bad news. The good news: Art Shapiro found and collected a cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) on Jan.

We hear about the decline in honeybees (non-native, from Europe and the most commonly managed bees), but native bees are declining too and in many instances these are the pollinators of California avocado. The loss of any pollinators is a loss for agriculture as well as the environment.