Agriculture

A recent article in Citrograph recounts studies in introducing tolerance/resistance to huanglongbing by inarching. This is a method that could potentially improve the productivity of trees that are already in the ground.

Healthy soils are key for ensuring optimum plant health for high quality, high yielding alfalfa stands, not to mention long-term crop production.

A chance to hear what can and is being done by growers to reduce the damage inflicted on avocado fruit and trees World wide Speakers: Lisa Fyffe & Simon Newett Australia, video Francisco Mena Chile, live Arnon Dag Israel, live Miguel Lalor Spain, live Bruce Lampinen UC Davis, video Derek Knobel...

Congrats to UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Soares Leal of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and a former chair of the Department of Entomology, on his induction as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

A recent paper shows that a food-grade coating can successfully reduce the damage of cherry fruit fly on cherries. This has implications for control of olive fruit fly, spotted-wing drosophila (on blueberry and other bush berries), Mediterranean fruit fly and other tephritid flies.

This workshop in English will present information for nursery and greenhouse growers, managers, and personnel on plant nutrition and fertilizer management with a focus on crops in containers. With demonstrations and hands-on activities.

No assassinations today! But an "assassination attempt." There it was, a leafhopper assassin bug, Zelus renardii, waiting for prey atop a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola in a Vacaville pollinator garden. Yes, it's native to North America.

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Today is the Fourth of July, and what better time to proclaim: "Hurray for the red, white and blue!" And the yellow. On a camping trip last week to Doran Regional Park, Bodega Bay, we admired our neighbors' display of American flagsbordered with a dozen honey bees. These bees, however, didn't buzz.

Reservations are now underway for the celebration of life for Dr. Eric Carnes Mussen, an internationally known 38-year California Cooperative Extension apiculturist and an invaluable member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty. He died June 3 of liver cancer at age 78.