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Volume 9 No. 2 -- Winter 2011

January 10, 2012
This issue of Topics in Subtropics contains the following articles: Vertebrate Damage Chemical Thinning of Olives Tips on Producing the Earliest Early Citrus in the San Joaquin Valley Herbicide Registration Chart Resource and Market Information for Enterprise Selection...
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Professor Art Shapiro with his newly found cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Pop Goes the Pieris

January 9, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Pop goes the Pieris. So wrote professor Art Shapiro of the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology from his office in Storer Hall. Yes, he won his own contest again.
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A honey bee heads toward a tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Honey Bees and Malaria

January 6, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
You don't usually see "honey bees" and "malaria" in the same sentence.
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Conservation agriculture is gaining acceptance in many parts of the world as an alternative to both conventional and organic agriculture.
Conservation Agriculture: Article

UC launches “Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative” Jan. 27

January 6, 2012
By Jeannette Warnert
A diverse group of public and private sector agricultural professionals are joining the University of California to form the Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative (CASI), an organization that will be formally launched at a public meeting Jan. 27 in Clovis, Calif.
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Ladybugs in the fava beans at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Love in the Fava Beans

January 5, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was lovely day today, in more ways than one. During the lunch hour, we stopped by the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis, and discovered more than just blossoms in the planter box filled with fava beans.
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Fritz Durst receives his award from Phil Hogan, district conservationist with USDA NRCS, Woodland, Calif.
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2011 CT farmers awarded

January 5, 2012
By Jeannette Warnert
In 2005, the University of California and NRCS Conservation Tillage Workgroup established the Conservation Tillage Farmer Innovator Award as a means for providing greater visibility to CT pioneers in California.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

T&V herbicides - MOA for resistance management

January 5, 2012
By Brad Hanson
I was forwarded a question recently about rotating herbicide mode of actions for resistance management in vineyards and realized that the information is not always particularly easy to find.
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Two cabbage whites (Pieris rapae) on catmint in Vacaville, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2008. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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On the Fly

January 4, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We've been waiting with bated breath for butterfly expert Art Shapiro, professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, to announce he's found the first Pieris rapae of the year. Not so. Not yet.
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