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The Bohart Museum's family arts-and-crafts table, featuring how to make gall ghosts, was busy throughout the open house, themed "Weird and Wonderful Wasps." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

At Bohart Museum of Entomology: It Took Gall to Make a Ghost

September 29, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It took gall to make a ghost. Really. When the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis recently hosted an open house on "Weird and Wonderful Wasps," the family arts-and-craft activity was to create a gall ghost.
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At the Bohart Museum of Entomology, Dr. Ismail Seker and his wife, Esin, stand in front of the Turkish flag and a card indicating how to say "insect" in the Turkish language. The Bohart Museum spotlights a global collection of flags, as well as how to say "insect" in many languages. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

How Do You Say 'Insect' in the Turkish Language?

September 28, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
How do you say "insect" in the Turkish language? That's a question posed by the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, on its wall display of global flags and languages. That was an easy question for Dr.
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La sección del estudio sobre mano de obra incluye información sobre el nuevo salario mínimo de California y leyes sobre el pago de horas extras.
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Expertos analizan costo y rendimiento en los cultivos de la fresa orgánica

September 28, 2022
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Piensa cultivar fresas orgnicas comercialmente en la Costa Central? Para ayudar a los agricultores a evaluar su viabilidad financiera, la Universidad de California calcul el costo de la produccin y cosecha de la fresa orgnica fresca en los condados de Santa Cruz, San Benito y Monterey.
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UC Davis estudiará si el agave puede ser un cultivo tolerante a la sequía y sustentable para California. Fotografía por Stephan Hinni on Unsplash
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¿Será el agave un nuevo cultivo en California?

September 28, 2022
By Basilisa M Rawleigh
UC Davis estudiar la sustentabilidad del agave a la vez que la industria del tequila crece La agricultura en California enfrenta un futuro incierto ante la sequa, los incendios forestales, y otros cambios extremosos son de lo ms comn en el oeste.
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avocado leaf wilted

Trees Need to Cool Too

September 27, 2022
By Ben A Faber
So what happens to an avocado tree when it runs out of water? The stomata close and stops transpiring. When water no longer evaporates from the leaf surface, it heats up. If it gets hot enough, and it will, the leaf sunburns and dies.
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Clebson Gonçalves, new UC Cooperative Extension Diversified Agricultural Advisor in Lake and Mendocino counties

New UC Cooperative Extension Advisor

September 26, 2022
By Clebson G Goncalves
My name is Clebson Gonalves and I am the UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Diversified Agricultural Systems Area Advisor for Lake and Mendocino counties. My educational background consists of studies focused on plant production, crop protection, and weed science.
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