Agriculture

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Participants head to the field (2016). Photo by Dana Dickey
UC Rice Blog: Article

Rice Weed Course 2019

August 13, 2019
By Whitney B Brim-Deforest
The 2019 Rice Weed Course will take place: Friday, September 6, 2019 from 8:00AM to 4:10PM (Registration begins at 7:30AM) at the Hamilton Road Field (on West Hamilton Rd. between Hwy. 99 & Riceton Hwy.
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Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, with his screensaver, an image he took of Franklin's bumble bee. He passed June 7. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Franklin's Bumble Bee May Be Protected: A Legacy of Robbin Thorp

August 13, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The late Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, and a global authority on bees, worked tirelessly to try to include Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Lying in Wait--An assassin bug, Zelus renardii, lies in wait on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Assassins in The Garden

August 12, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A pollinator garden is a study in diversity--and of inclusion and exclusion. The residents, the immigrants, the fly-bys, the crawlers, the wigglers, the jumpers. The big, bad and bugly. The prey and the predators. The vegetarians and carnivores.
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smutgrass pub
Ranching in the Sierra Foothills: Article

Coping with Smutgrass on Irrigated Pasture

August 12, 2019
By Daniel K Macon
Smutgrass (Sporobolus indicus) is a warm-season perennial grass native to the tropics. Since it is well-adapted to warm summer temperatures, we seem to be seeing more of it on foothill and Sacramento Valley irrigated pastures.
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Strawberry field
E-Journal of Entomology and Biologicals: Article

A sustainable way of producing strawberries using the new IPM model

August 11, 2019
A strawberry field in Nipomo (Photo by Surendra Dara) The traditional Integrated Pest Management (IPM) model is focused on maintaining ecological balance in the cropping system with some attention to the economics of pest management related to the yield losses.
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Legendary Lepidopterists Paul Opler (left), an octogenarian, and Robert Michael Pyle, a septuagenarian, chat during their visit to the Bohart Museum of Entomology. It was part of the Lepidopterists' Society's 68th annual conference. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

A Gathering of Lepidopterists at UC Davis

August 8, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
They are legends. Two of those attending the four-day international Lepidopterists' Society conference held recently at the University of California, Davis, are as celebrated in Lepidoptera circles as the butterflies they study.
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UCCE animal science specialist Frank Mitloehner. (Photo: UC Davis)
ANR News Blog: Article

UN releases major climate change report

August 8, 2019
By Jeannette Warnert
Keeping global warming below 2 degrees C (3.6 F) can be achieved only by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors, including land and food, said the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a report released Aug. 8, 2019.
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