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One of the major research and extension areas in my program is weed control efficacy in orchards and vineyards. During the 2012-13 growing season, we conducted about 50 herbicide efficacy trials in commercial orchards or research station sites.

Fungi such as Beauveria bassiana, Isaria fumosorosea, Metarhizium brunneum are pathogenic to mites and insects and are primarily used for pest management. Some of these are known to endophytically colonize plants and offer protection against arthropod pests feeding on those plants.

(Editor's Note: Due to the government shutdown, this seminar has been cancelled.) It's a topic we've all been waiting for: "Honey Bee Health and Disease Resistance.

1st Annual Colusa Harvest Festival, National 4-H Week, Club Achievement Nights...

This article is reproduced because stinkbugs can attack avocado stems and weaken them, causing fruit drop. It' not clear that this species of stinkbug will attack avocado, but there is a possibility and we should all be on the lookout for it.

The news is not good. Scores of Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are now migrating toward their overwintering zone in Mexico but they're doing so in dwindling numbers.

Two 'streaks on a sedum. Sounds like a song, doesn't it? Actually there were two gray hairstreaks (Strymon melinus) on a sedum today in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis. Make that two 'streaks and a honey bee.

New UC short-day variety Benicia (Photo by Surendra Dara) Different species of spider mites attack strawberry plants. Spider mites feed on the underside of the leaves, scrape the tissue, and suck the plant juices.

Since our last article on high-density avocados appeared in Topics in Subtropics (Vol. 10 no. 1, Spring 2012) we have had a lot of questions from growers concerning the cost of installation of such a grove.