Agriculture

Con el propsito de apoyar a los agricultores y ganaderos de California a adaptarse a la incertidumbre de los fenmenos metereolgicos y climticos, el Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos otorg 1.

It sucks sap, it secretes honeydew, and it draws ants. And curious photographers. Last weekend we spotted cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi, infesting the twigs and branches of our Nandina (Nandina domestica), planted 22 years ago.

Z Specialty Food will host a Nature Day celebration from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 2 at The Hive, 1221 Harter Way, Woodland to emphasize the importance of honey, bees, pollination and conservation.

Vaya que el aguacate sigue dando sorpresas! Quizs los consumidores sepan que es una fruta cremosita sabrosa, nutritiva y reconocida por su gran semilla.

If you've recently visited the pollinator gardens at The Hive, a family business owned by Z Specialty Food, 1221 Harter Way, Woodland, you've seen the spectacular Pride of Madeira, Echium candicans. Now another "pride" awaits.

Quick question: "Kleptopharmacophagy, a newly described behavior recently observed in milkweed butterflies, is characterized by adult butterflies feeding on milkweed caterpillars.

Let The Games begin! The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology Team, with a history of three national championships, is gearing up for the Entomology Games at the annual meeting of the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA).

Lockeford Plant Materials Center Cover Crop and Soil Health Field Day April 6, 2022 - 10 -12pm Agenda Fava Bean Advantages in Cover Crop Mixes Hossein Zackeri, Chico State Cover Crop performance for the Central Valley - Tom Johnson, Kamprath Seed Conservation Cover Study Perennial planting for orc...

I invite you to travel back in time with me - clear back to late October 2021! We'd measured more than 10 inches of rain in Auburn, and we could see the first green shoots of grass emerging through the dry forage.

Ready to learn about mammoth wasps, medflies, nematodes and pesticide risks to polilnators, or delve into such topics as "Mystery of the Missing Microbes: Why Do Bees Keep Losing Their Symbionts?