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Nuestra Comunidad: Article

Renewing our vows to improve the Planet

April 27, 2022
By Basilisa M Rawleigh
In Spanish Pink dolphins stopped hiding on the coasts of Hong Kong and Macau. In Mumbai, the city was invaded by flamingos in numbers never seen before.
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bolas spider citrus
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Look Closely in Your Trees

April 27, 2022
By Ben A Faber
Bolas Spiders - Little Gauchos with an Appetite for Moths When UC Santa Barbara's soccer team scores a goal, a chorus of Ol! Ol, ol, ol! Gauchos! Gauchos! may ring out across the stadium.
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Artwork by Leah Sobsey of the University of North Carolina for “In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss” exhibition, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Digitized cyanotype.
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Emily Meineke Helped Spearhead Thoreau Exhibit at Harvard Museum of Natural History

April 25, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A UC Davis entomologist, formerly of the Harvard University Herbaria, is among the scholars and artists who helped spearhead the newly created Harvard Museum of Natural History's In Search of Thoreau's Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss," hailed as an examination of the natural world and cli...
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passionfruit interplanted with chermioya
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Find the Passsion

April 25, 2022
By Ben A Faber
To Passionfruit Growers, packers, shippers: Several state researchers with passionfruit are collaborating with Dr. Eric Stafne, Professor, Fruit Crops from Mississippi State University on a project to prioritize research and extension programs for the U.S. passionfruit industry.
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Photo 2. Manifolds to inject Kerb
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Drip injection of Kerb evaluated

April 24, 2022
By Richard F Smith, Michael D Cahn
Richard Smith is the Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Farm Advisor and Michael Cahn is the Irrigation and Water Resources Farm Advisor. Both are with the University of California Cooperative Extension in Monterey County.
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UC Davis forest entomologist and doctoral student Crystal Homicz assists a fire beetle demonstration at a 2018 Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. The fire beetles are in the genus Melanophila and are sensitive to smoke and heat from smoldering trees after a fire. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Forest Entomologist Crystal Homicz to Present Thesis Proposal

April 22, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Doctoral student and forest entomologist Crystal Homicz of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will present her thesis proposal, "Impacts and Management of Western Pine Beetle in the Sierra Nevada During a Period of Rapid Change," at 11 a.m., Monday, April 25 via Zoom.
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fire citrus trunk burn
Topics in Subtropics: Article

CALCULATING THE VALUE OF A LEMON TREE LOSS

April 22, 2022
By Ben A Faber
Etaferahu Takele, Area Farm Management Advisor, UCCE Southern California and Don Stewart, Staff Research Associate, Ag Issues Center This article provides a sample estimate value of a lemon tree when a loss occurs due to fire or any other cause.
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