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If It's Brown, Leave It on the Ground

July 21, 2021
By Ben A Faber
For quite some time, farmers and researchers have been focusing on how to bind carbon to soil. Doing so makes food crops more nutritious and increases yields.
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UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño showing a frame at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility to students. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Extension Apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño Achieves Promotion

July 19, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Nio, a honey bee scientist and educator who serves all of California and is a member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty, was recently promoted to associate specialist, effective July 1.
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Digging Into the Literature

July 19, 2021
By Ben A Faber
1 to 20 of 47,867 Full-Text results on Avocado https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?field1=ocr;q1=avocado;a=srchls;lmt=ft 47,867 full text articles and books on avocado. The digital world brings more avocado information to you. In the case of avocado, 47,867 citations with full text.
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FLOAT LIKE A LEPIDOPTERA--A monarch floats over milkweed, its host plant, in this image taken in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Float Like Lepidoptera, Sting Like Hymenoptera?

July 16, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Early in his career, the late heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) drew international headlines when he uttered that remark before his 1964 fight with then champion Sonny Liston.
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New Pest on Figs

July 16, 2021
By Ben A Faber
The following is a pest rating proposal by Kyle Beucke (CDFA) with some photographs by Martin Hauser (CDFA) and Iain MacGowan: On June 10, 2021, a resident in Pasadena (Los Angeles County) submitted a fig with pupae to county agricultural personnel.
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One of the species that Professor Joanna Chiu studies is the spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzuki, shown here on a raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Three UC Davis Entomology Faculty Achieve Promotions

July 15, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Two UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty members are now full professors, and a third faculty member has achieved tenure as associate professor.
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Invasive Weed Control Without Herbicides

July 14, 2021
By Ben A Faber
California has abundant wildlands forests, rangeland, open areas, wildlife refuges and national, state, and local parks that need protection from invasive plants.
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