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Ventura County Master Gardener Help Desk and Newsletter
Got Gardening Questions?
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Email: mgventura@ucdavis.edu
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Elayne Angel Harbert Fund
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Garden Checklist for September
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The kids are back in school, days are noticeably shorter, and Halloween decorations are filling local stores. Though reminiscent of the cooler fall weather we anticipate, the reality is that we in Ventura County still have a bit of heat with which to contend – and so do our gardens. |
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Praying or Preying or Peering
Praying, preying, or peering?
This female praying mantis, a Stagmomantis limbata, selects a patch of red Lantana to watch for pollinators.
Her spiked forelegs resting, her eyes always watching but her body as still as a stone, she makes an...
Curator Jeff Smith: Spreading the Wings of Butterflies
Do you know how to spread the wings of a butterfly specimen?
It's not as easy as it looks, but entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection, makes it look easy.
If you attend the Bohart Museum...
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