Test PB Collection: FTE

UC research has shown that conservation agriculture practices such as cover cropping and no tillage are generating additional "ecosystem services" in West Side cotton and tomato production.

So far, so good. The three queen bumble bees (Bombus melanopygus) we found buzzing around our porch light the night of Jan. 9 are still very much alive.

A new year and a new farm advisor in Colusa-Sutter-Yuba!...

Several calls have come in from growers lately about yellow avocado and citrus trees. the yellowing is most common on the late summer flush leaves or can affect the whole canopy on young trees. In severe cases leaves fall.

Don't go looking for the first-flight cabbage white butterfly of the year in Yolo, Solano and Sacramento counties. The beer-for-a-butterfly contest is over. We have a winner!...drum roll...

Talking Points: Weed control failures can and do occur. Weed control failures occur for many reasons, including improper treatment applications and plant size and development at the time of treatment. Plants that aren't completely controlled can produce viable seed and re-infest fields.

Onionweed (Asphodelus fistulosus) is an attractive but very difficult to control weed that is relatively common along highways, some irrigation right of ways and other areas in Southern California.

Pan-Optics: Perspectives on Digital Privacy and Surveillance March 6, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium bit.

Most of us remember the old nursery rhyme, "Good night, sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite," and vow to do everything we can to avoid any blood-letting. Whether we call them "blood suckers," "menace in the mattress," or "human parasites," it's not cool to be bitten by bed bugs.

Pollination ecologists have typically studied a focal plant species and one or a few closely related pollinator taxa, such as bumblebees, which fostered the view that plant-pollinator relationships are highly specialized.