Agriculture

They're not exactly cute, cuddly little critters. Some folks say they look like miniature alligators or "ugly, spiky orange-and-black buggy thingies.

Tobin Hammer, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, UC Irvine, will give an in-person and virtual seminar on Wednesday, April 13 to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on "Mystery of the Missing Microbes: Why Do Bees Keep Losing Their Symbionts?

The alliteration doesn't get much better--bees buzzing on breathtaking berry blossoms. Berry blossoms are in full bloom in the UC Davis Ecological Garden of the Student Farm, part of the UC Agricultural Sustainabilty Institute.

USDA Offers Resources to Expand Meat Processing The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced late last week the launch of the Meat and Poultry Processing Capacity Technical Assistance Program to provide technical assistance to meat and poultry grant applicants and grant-funded projects.

They're curious little critters. When solider beetles (family Cantharidae) go on patrol in your garden, don't kill them. They're not being deployed to harm you. They're the good guys. They eat aphids and other soft-bodied insects.

So in a 2-week period in February I was getting calls and emails from growers asking about the black stuff forming on the green stems of avocado trees. I thought that it was just sooty mold that was the result of insect feeding and resultant honeydew. This is a superficial fungus on stems.

We are excited to announce upcoming field events hosted by University of California Cooperative Extension: Demonstrating Efficient N Fertilizer Management in Practices in California Wheat On-farm field day in Kings County: Wednesday April 20th 2022, 9:30AM 12PM.

You'll enter the world of parasitic worms, poverty and solutions when you listen to the virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on Wednesday, April 6.

More than 3 billion people worldwide live on less than $2.50 a day. The majority live in low- and middle- income countries, and some in vulnerable communities of high-income countries. Chronic infections in these populations are predominated by parasitic helminths.

Graduate student Mia Lippey of the laboratories of UC Davis distinguished professor Jay Rosenheim and assistant professor Emily Meineke, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present her thesis proposal "An Ecoinformatics Approach to Characterizing Ecological Change in the Anthropoc...