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Cal Fire senior environmental specialist Curtis Ewing shows a coast live oak with cankers and flatheaded borer damage.

Beetle Mania to Descend on the Bohart

January 20, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The beetles are coming! The beetles are coming! From boring beetles to burying beetles...and beetles from Belize and more... And you're invited. The Bohart Museum of Entomology is hosting an open house, themed "Beetles," from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan.
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Soil Heath and its Impact on Soilborne Disease

January 19, 2023
By Kelley L Sivertson
Richard Smith1, Eric Brennan2, JP Dundore Arias3, Daniel Geisseler4, Peter Henry2, Danyal Kasapligil5, Nicholas LeBlanc2, Karen Lowell6, Jeff Mitchell4, Joji Muramoto7, Radomir Schmidt4, Kate Scow4 and Yu-Chen Wang1 1 UCCE Monterey; 2 USDA ARS, Salinas; 3 CSU, Monterey Bay; 4 UC Davis; 5 De La...
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Lemon Sheepnose

January 13, 2023
By Ben A Faber
If the citrus fruit has a swollen stem end, it's called "sheepnose" and it's a swollen nipple or blossom end, it's also called "sheepnose". A swollen nipple is much more common. The fruit also tends to be coarse and the skin thick.
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Odd Tracks

January 11, 2023
By Ben A Faber
This odd pattern that has shown up on polyethylene irrigation tubing was sent in by an observant Santa Paula grower. The fruit trees were covered with aphids and there was sooty mold growing on the honey dew dripping onto the tubing.
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