Agriculture

Just before Amina Harris retired June 30, 2023 as director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, part of the Robert Mondavi Institute, she headed to Mexico with Slow Food Yolo to teach about her favorite subjecthoney--at the Univa University in LaPiedad, Michoacan.

Moths will grab the spotlight at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on Saturday, July 22 but besides Lepidopterists (those who study butterflies and moths), attendees can meet and greet dipterists (those who study flies), learn about mosquitoes from the author of a newly published children...

El Hopland REC convierte la devastacin del incendio forestal River de 2018 en una oportunidad de investigacin La destruccin causada por el incendio forestal se observa fcilmente, pero los peligros pueden esconderse bajo las cenizas.

Son brotes similares a los causados por El Nio en los aos noventa La ola de ros atmosfricos que azot todo el estado el invierno pasado cre las condiciones perfectas para los patgenos de plantas que no se haban visto en California durante dcadas.

UC Berkeley y la tribu Karuk colaboran en la aplicacin de la ciencia indgena y occidental para desarrollar sistemas alimentarios resilientes ante el cambio climtico Un nuevo informe concluy que los miembros de la tribu Karuk reconocen la importancia de monitorear el estrs climtico en las especies de...

Richard Smith, Joji Muramoto, Tim Hartz and Michael Cahn UCCE Emeritus Farm Advisor, Extension Specialist, Emeritus, Extension Specialist and Irrigation and Water Resources Farm Advisor. The winter of 2023 had the highest rainfall years in the last 25 years.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) regularly performs surveys across the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) to monitor for potential insect and pathogen issues for California agricultural producers.

Congrats to the lab of nematologist Shahid Siddique, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, for excellent presentations at the 62nd annual meeting of the Society of Nematologists (SON), held July 9-14 in Columbus, Ohio: Alison Coomer Blundell, who will be a fourth-year doctoral candidate...

There have been several recent questions about dealing with a plant floating in reservoirs. Here's Weed Scientist Emeritus John Roncoroni's response to them. * * * * * * Pacific Mosquitofern, (Azolla filiculoides) often referred to as Azolla, is native to California.

Doctoral students in the laboratory of nematologist Shahid Siddique, associate professor in the Department of Entomology and Nematology, excelled at the 62nd annual meeting of the Society of Nematologists (SON), held July 9-14 in Columbus, Ohio.