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Black streak disease in avocado can be managed with irrigation as described in the IPM Year Round Program

Year Round IPM Guides

February 8, 2013
By Ben A Faber
SKIP TO CONTENT PRINT Guided tour of the year-round IPM programs for field, orchard, and vineyard crops. (Detailed outlinewith links to examples) Introduction (3 min) Prevention (3 min) Pest identification (4.5 min) Monitoring (5 min) Management decisions (6 min) Management methods (6.
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Table for one, please! A honey bee in the shadows of a daphne bloom at the Storer Garden, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Table for One, Please

February 7, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Ah, what an intoxicating scent! If you've ever been around the winter daphne, Daphne odora, cultivar "Aureomarginata," you know that its aroma precedes it. You'll ask "What's that fragrance?" before you even see the showy pink-and-white blossoms and its green leaves edged in gold.
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UC Cooperative Extension Napa County: Article

Video demonstration (in Spanish): Measuring grapevine leaf water potential

February 7, 2013
By Monica L Cooper
Dr. Arturo Calderon, Postdoctoral scholar, USDA and UC Davis has released an instructional video (in Spanish) on the use of the pressure bomb to measure grapevine leaf water potential. We hope you will find this video to be a useful training tool.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83FXDi8Vkxg
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A walking stick at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Going with Your Gut

February 6, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Of the one millions insects so far described, 120,000 are butterflies or moths, 150,000 are flies, 400,000 are beetles, and only 3000 are walking sticks. Which are my speciality. Not too much is known about walking sticks because not many people have studied them.
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E-Journal of Entomology and Biologicals: Article

Year-round IPM for cole crops and pistachios

February 6, 2013
View new year-round IPM program video & year-round IPM programs to protect cole crops and pistachio from agricultural pests Got pests and want to use integrated pest management? Use a year-round IPM program.
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Honey bee foraging in a flowering quince. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Buffet for the Bees

February 5, 2013
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
When the honey bee meets the flowering quince, the bee is "the belle of the ball." The winter ball. Suddenly the flowering quince (genus Chaenomele) transforms the bleak wintery landscape into a spring ballroom of sorts. The giddy bee is a joy to see.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Weed Control Update for Dry Bulb Onions

February 5, 2013
By Richard F Smith
Weed control in onions can be challenging. Onions have various challenges that make weed control difficult. They grow slowly early in the crop cycle and never achieve a good competitive crop canopy to suppress weeds.
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Colusa County: Article

Walnut Notes

February 5, 2013
Walnut Day, 2-21-13, Yuba City Walnut Pruning Field Day, 3-5-13, Nickels Soil Lab Efficient Walnut Spraying article Snake River area funding...
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