Test PB Collection: FTE

The City of Davis is hosting a pest management seminar Thursday morning at the Veteran's Memorial Theater.

Impacts of the recent drought conditions on Central Coast avocado production, and potential impacts of continued drought conditions Avocados are the most salt and drought sensitive of our fruit tree crops.

If you missed the first fall plant sale at the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery on Garrod Drive, you're in luck. The next public sale is Saturday, Oct. 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. We attended the sale on Saturday, Oct.

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In this issue: Last New Leader Orientation Date coming up!! Enrollment system shuts down Nov 1st! Make it, Take it Craft Expo Nov 1st! and many, many more articles.

If you've ever watched a Gray Hairstreak butterfly (Strymon melinus) nectaring a sedum, and then watched a honey bee (Apis mellifera) land on the same flower, it's a study in sharing. "I was here first," says the Gray Hairstreak, sipping nectar. "I was here second," says the honey bee.

I was recently in an avocado orchard and saw the rounded fruit and small leaves typical of zinc deficient trees. I asked the grower if there were recent leaf analysis of the orchard, and so we looked at them. The leaves were running at 20 ppm which is low. Sufficiency runs at 50 ppm.

Western tarnished plant bug (Lygus hesperus) killed by the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana (Photo by Surendra Dara) Beneficial fungi such as Beauveria bassiana are pathogenic to insect and mite pests and are commercially available for use in organic and conventional farming.