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Posts Tagged: Natural Resources
Celebrating the Crab Spider in Arachtober
It's Arachtober and that means celebrating arachnids for the entire month of October. Well, we ought to celebrate them year around, but October is THEIR month. Let's especially applaud crab spiders when they prey on such agricultural pests as the...
A crab spider eating a lygus bug, an agricultural pest in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Learning About the Bees and the Nutrition They Need
If you missed the eagerly anticipated UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar by apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada, an associate professor at Texas A&M and an international leader in honey bee research, not to worry. Her...
A screen shot from the seminar of apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada of Texas A&M.
Happy Arachtober!
It's October and Arachtober: the month to celebrate spiders and other arachnids. As arachnologists will tell you, arachnids are arthropods that include spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and...
Pretty in pink. A jumping spider on a pink rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pretty in yellow. A jumping spider on a yellow rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pretty in green. A jumping spider on green vegetation in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Zeroing in on Honey Bees
The next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology promises to be of great interest to bee scientists, beekeepers, and all those who want to learn more about honey bees. An international leader in honey bee...
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2024 Pest Management Meeting
2024 Pest Management Meeting
Sponsor: UCCE Monterey County
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Location: Agricultural Center Meeting Room (1432 Abbott St, Salinas CA)
Time: 7:55 am-12:15 pm
Pre-registration is encouraged: https://surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.cfm?surveynumber=43793
Agenda:
7:55 Introductions
8:00 2024 Plant disease update
Yu-Chen Wang, Plant Pathology Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension, Monterey
8:30 Soil disinfestation with steam for weed and disease control
Steve Fennimore, Extension Vegetable Weed Specialist, UC Davis
9:00 Lettuce breeding for disease resistance
Kelley Richardson, Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS, Salinas
9:30 Pest detection & delimitation 2023-2024
Casey McSwiggin, Deputy Agricultural Commissioner, Monterey County
10:00 Break
10:15 Update on spinach downy mildew and INSV on spinach
Jim Correll, Professor of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas
10:45 Soilborne pathogens of lettuce and research updates on Fusarium wilt
Alex Putman, Plant Pathology Extension Specialist, UC Riverside
11:15 2024 Update on thrips and INSV
Daniel Hasegawa, Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS, Salinas
11:45 Management of insect pests in lettuce and cole crops - research update
Ian Grettenberger, Extension Entomology Specialist, UC Davis
Addie Abrams, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Davis
4.0 DPR credits have been requested.
For more information, contact the UCCE Office @ 831-759-7350 or email Yu-Chen Wang (yckwang@ucanr.edu )
