Test PB Collection: FTE

Union Pacific invites applications for a management position overseeing their vegetation control program for the Western Region.

Brown marmorated stink bug adult male (Photo by: Surendra Dara, UCCE and Rodney Cooper, USDA-ARS) Brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Halyomorpha halys Stl was recently found in San Luis Obispo County in an incoming shipment of household items from Pennsylvania, where it is considered as a serious pe...

What's that? When award-winning photographer Teresa Willis of Vacaville encountered a red caterpillar on a dirt road at about 6000 feet in a canyon north of Paradise Valley, Nev., she did what photographers do--she captured an image of it.

Yellow nutsedge found a good home in warmer areas of California and purple nutsedge is sometimes present as well.

Ants are such tiny critters. But they're much more than that. Much more. Ant specialist Brian Fisher, an entomologist with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, describes ants as "industrious, tenacious workers who live in colonies and obey a hierarchy of rulers.

You want to know why flies are fantastic? They are, you know. Just ask Martin Hauser of the Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). He'll discuss "Why Flies Are Fantastic" at the Northern California Entomology Society meeting, set from 9:15 to 3 p.m.

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Have you ever looked closely at a fiery skipper (Hylephila phyleus) and seen its proboscis, aka tongue or feeding tube? If you stay still and don't shadow it while it's nectaring, you'll see the proboscis darting in an out of a blossom.

Wear your favorite insect costume. Show off your insect tattoo. When the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis hosts its pre-Halloween open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 30, it promises to be a "blood-suckin' good time." And it's free and open to the public.

Producing 85 percent of the nations strawberries, California growers urgently need alternatives to methyl bromide fumigation if they are to maintain yields. Methyl bromide has been phased out for all but critical uses because it depletes ozone in the upper atmosphere.