Test PB Collection: FTE

From the UC Strawberries and Caneberries blog :: Oct. 11, 2013 A response to the question posed to us concerning how soon one should be applying water to Chateau (flumioxazin) sprayed in the furrows for weed control in strawberry.

If you like oranges, you can thank a honey bee. Oranges are 90 percent dependent on honey bees for pollination. Remember that week of freezing temperatures back in December? Yes, it affected California's $2 billion citrus industry.

Adult weeping fig thrips, larva, and eggs. (Photo by Gevork Arakelian, Senior Biologist, Los Angeles County) Another exotic pest has recently found its way to California.

I led a team to develop a weed identification wheel for use by people who don't have a lot of background in weed management.

Dothiorella leaf blight which is really a whole range of fungi that cause leaf diseases, along with cankers and wilts goes to many different host plants from citrus to Brazlian pepper to ash to redwood to palm to pittosporum to eucalyptus to pine.

It's often mistaken for a honey bee. Indeed, to the untrained eye, the drone fly (Eristalis tenax) appears to be a bee. It's not; it's a fly. Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, calls the drone fly "The H Bee.

California Cherimoya Association Annual Meeting 10 AM, Sunday, April 13, 2014 The Annual Meeting will be held at Hanson Agricultural Center (formerly Faulkner Farms) on the corner of Briggs Rd. and Telephone Rd. in Santa Paula. (14292 W. Telegraph Rd., Santa Paula.

It's a glorious day, the first day of spring, and what better time to mark the occasion by visiting the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery on Garrod Drive?

Greetings all. I'll get back to some serious posts, soon. However, I thought I would celebrate the turning of the seasons with song. Nerdy songs. Songs only a scientist could love. FYI, some of these come with annoying commercials that you need to skip...Enjoy.

From the Topics in Subtropics blog :: July 5, 2013 It is not always easy to kill weeds with herbicides for several reasons, but if you apply the right material at the right time to susceptible weeds you expect control. But you should never assume it, because resistant weeds rely on this assumption.