Posts Tagged: Pest Management

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)

A crab spider eating a lygus bug, an agricultural pest in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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 )

Paying Tribute to Richard 'Doc' Bohart

"His eyes seem to be following us everywhere." So quipped UC Davis distinguished professor emerita Lynn Kimsey about the portraits and multiple images of Richard "Doc" Bohart (1913-2007) gracing the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on...

Only three directors have led the Bohart Museum of Entomology since 1946. Pictured are hymenopterist Lynn Kimsey, director from 1990 to Feb. 1, 2024, and arachnologist Jason Bond, director since Feb. 1. The portrait shows Richard "Doc" Bohart, who founded the insect museum in 1946. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Only three directors have led the Bohart Museum of Entomology since 1946. Pictured are hymenopterist Lynn Kimsey, director from 1990 to Feb. 1, 2024, and arachnologist Jason Bond, director since Feb. 1. The portrait shows Richard "Doc" Bohart, who founded the insect museum in 1946. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A portrait of Richard "Doc" Bohart graces a wall overlooking a celebratory cake at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Sept. 28th open house. "Doc" was born Sept. 28, 2013 in Palo Alto and founded the UC Davis insect museum, now known as the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A portrait of Richard "Doc" Bohart graces a wall overlooking a celebratory cake at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Sept. 28th open house. "Doc" was born Sept. 28, 2013 in Palo Alto and founded the UC Davis insect museum, now known as the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum director Professor Jason Bond addresses the crowd, with former director Lynn Kimsey, now a UC Davis distinguished professor emerita. Bond is the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and associate dean, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum director Professor Jason Bond addresses the crowd, with former director Lynn Kimsey, now a UC Davis distinguished professor emerita. Bond is the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and associate dean, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum director Professor Jason Bond cuts the cake while Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator serves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum director Professor Jason Bond cuts the cake while Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator serves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Zeroing in on Soil Invertebrate Communities

You might call it earth-shattering, but better, "an eye-opener about soil compositions." Associate professor Kyle Wickings of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, will...

This is an image from Kyle Wickings' soil arthropod ecology lab at Cornell University.

This is an image from Kyle Wickings' soil arthropod ecology lab at Cornell University.

Want to Learn More about Mosquitoes and Ticks?

Want to learn more about mosquitoes and ticks? UC Davis doctoral student and medical entomologist Carla-Cristina “CC” Melo Edwards of the laboratory of medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo of the UC Davis Department of...

UC Davis doctoral student and medical entomologist CC Edwards dragging for ticks at Bodega Bay.

UC Davis doctoral student and medical entomologist CC Edwards dragging for ticks at Bodega Bay.

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