Test PB Collection: FTE

It never got very cold this winter in spite of the freeze we had at the turn of the new year. Insects that are normally knocked back by cold weather such as scales and the formidable Asian Citrus Psyllid continued on very well, thank you.

Who wouldn't like to have a lady beetle, aka ladybug? Although they're commonly called "ladybugs," entomologists call them "lady beetles." That's because they're beetles, not bugs.

Remember Stephanie Hsia? She's the beekeeper/graduate student at Harvard's Graduate School of Design who traveled through almond orchards in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys in May 2014 to illustrate and pen a book about the spatial relationship between honey bees and almonds.

I was just speaking to a group of Certified Crop Advisors and there was some confusion about the units used by different labs to report their results, so I put together this sheet to help understand the relationship between the different terms.

Mark your calendar. If you want to learn about malaria and the exciting new research underway, be sure to set aside Friday, April 24.

toGrowing blueberries in a pot is not such a whacky idea. Along the coast, they never get as big as the Central Valley or other places where they are grown. That's because they are in almost continuous flower and fruit production.

The vibrant colors of Cosmos, an annual flower with the same common name as its genus, are spectacular. But we especially like the showstopping pink Cosmos with its bright yellow center. Well, sometimes, they have a green center--that's when an ultra green sweat bee is foraging.

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It's like winning the triple crown. The Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America (PBESA) has announced that two distinguished professors and a graduate student from the Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, have won major awards.

Along the mighty Santa Clara River are planted many lemons and once upon a time many Valencia orange trees. There's lots of wild life along the river which causes some issues with food safety. One of the many creatures are rats and when things dry up they start foraging further and further for food.