Agriculture

Do you know how honey bees, the world's most beneficial insects, produce wax? Have you ever worked with beeswax? Have you ever made candles and wax resusable food wraps? Ever gifted them during the holidays to friends, family and co-workers?

Warning: the video link in this blog post includes images of a sheep killed by a coyote. This story begins several weeks back. We split our ewe flock into two breeding groups in late September, and kept a third group (of replacement ewe lambs, who won't be bred until next fall) separate.

Nematodes (microscopic, eel-like roundworms) aren't usually a household word but they're featured prominently in the current edition of The Plant Journal. And UC Davis plant nematologist Shahid Siddique, formerly with the University of Bonn, is at the heart of it.

Newly published nematode research led by plant nematologist Shahid Siddique of UC Davis, formerly with the University of Bonn, is featured as the research highlight in the October 14th edition of The Plant Journal.

Those enrolling in the Wax Working, Honey and Hive Products, a first-of-its-kind class offered by the Elina Nio lab at the University of California, Davis, will learn how wax is made, how to collect it, how to process it, and how to make their own wax products such as candles and wax reusable food w...

So here are all these milkweed bugs clustered on a showy milkweed leaf, Asclepias speciosa. It's early morning and the red bugs are a real eye opener.

Like many Master Gardeners, Christy Gray came to the program with a range of experiences and a strong affinity for her San Bernardino community.

Its not too late to register for the San Joaquin Valley Spray Application Short Course (November 12-14). Here's a link to the webpage: https://ucanr.edu/sites/SJVSprayApplication/Home/ Here's a link to the full agenda: https://ucanr.

Boom, just when you think everything is going fine, you run across a reminder that there are little things going on in the orchard that are out of our control.

The circadian clocks of plants and pollinators... The exciting research of Professor Takato Imaizumi of the University of Washington.