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CE webinars in September and October
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UCCE Sutter-Yuba-Colusa Continuing Education Series

September 2, 2020
By Whitney B Brim-Deforest
University of California Cooperative Extension Sutter-Yuba-Colusa is holding a series of webinars in September and October to provide research updates on some of the major crops in the Sacramento Valley.
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iron chlorosis avocado
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Why Test Soils?

September 2, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Because it is easier to correct a problem before you plant the trees than it is to diagnose and treat dying ones, which will probably be ripped out. A sad start to a tree is not a good ending.
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Landscape Horticulture Updates for Southern California: Article

Welcome Accepted Master Gardener Applicants!

September 1, 2020
By Janet S Hartin
What do more than a dozen community and school garden organizers, members and directors of 15 non-profit boards, several K-12 teachers, a department chair from Loma Linda University a, retired USDA senior marketing manager, a sociologist, an anthropologist, a handful of IT and human resource manager...
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This monarch caterpillar was reared from an egg collected on a tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Welcome to the World of Monarchs, Greta!

September 1, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Welcome to the world of monarchs, Greta! We don't normally name the monarch butterflies we rear, but we decided that the first one reared from an egg "The Greg Way" would be named for Greg--naturalist Greg Kareofelas, associate at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis.
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Caroline Yelle, owner of Pope Canyon Queens, lost some 500 hives during the Aug. 19 Vacaville fire. (Photo by Caroline Yelle)
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What Do Honey Bee Colonies Do During a Raging Wildfire?

August 31, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
What do honey bee colonies do when a raging wildfire heads straight toward their hives (bee boxes)? No, the bees do not abscond with their queen and relocate, says Norman Gary, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis.
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