Test PB Collection: FTE

It's no surprise that students as young as kindergarteners are eager to learn about the life cycle of a butterfly--from an egg, to a caterpillar to a chrysalis to an adult. Complete metamorphosis. Complete awe.

RICE FIELD DAY Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Rice Experiment Station, Biggs, CA The annual Rice Field Day will be Wednesday, August 28, 2013, at the Rice Experiment Station (RES), Biggs, California.

At last! From an egg to a caterpillar to a chrysalis to a butterfly. And it's a girl! For several days we've been protecting a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) chryalis on our passionflower vine (Passiflora) from predators.

A followup today on a post from last October about a series of glyphosate-resistant weed extension publications that were "about to be finalized". These four paper finally wound their way through the review and publication process and were posted on the UC ANR Catalog last week.

This is the last in my series of posts outlining current University of California weed science research published in the California Weed Science Society (CWSS) Research Update and News (June 2013, Volume 9, #2).

Agricultural spray adjuvants are materials added to the spray tank when loading the sprayer. They include products classified as activator adjuvants and marketed as wetters/spreaders, stickers, humectants, and/or penetrators.

The Sacramento Bee features a nice front-page spread on stinkwort today, with interviews with Joe DiTomaso and John Roncoroni. Sticky, hairy, and smelly (the weed, that is). What's not to love? Also a photo from one of Rachel Brownsey's plots. http://www.sacbee.

Do you have snails and slugs chewing up your favorite garden plants? Are spiders hanging out in and around your home? How can you get rid of those pesky webs? The UC Statewide IPM program has just released six short videos to help you find answers to these questions.

So patient, so passionate. The praying mantis looked hungry last Thursday when it perched on a coneflower in the half-acre Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis. Where's breakfast? Where's lunch? Where's dinner? Nowhere to be found.

Introduction The economic sustainability and consequent longevity of Californias historic black ripe table olive industry is challenged by the crippling cost of hand-harvest, a cost that often exceeds 50-75% of gross return.