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Pheromone trap
Salinas Valley Agriculture: Article

Update on area-wide monitoring for diamondback moth, aphids and thrips

April 21, 2019
We continue the effort of monitoring diamondback moth (DBM) across the Salinas Valley using sex pheromone baited traps, as shown in the picture above. We have been adding additional traps to cover a larger area along Highway 101. We have daily moth capture data from Castroville to Greenfield.
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A male monarch seeking nectar in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Butterfly Summit: Are Butterflies Heralds of Apocalypse?

April 19, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough," wrote the late poet Rabindranath Targoe (1861-1941) of Bengali, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. There may not be "time enough" for some species that are rapidly declining.
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CSUCI students at HAREC
Hansen News: Article

CSU Channel Islands Seminar at HAREC

April 19, 2019
By Susana Bruzzone-Miller
A warm HAREC welcome to Dr. Tracylee Clarke and her Leadership Studies class from CSU Channel Islands. Dr. Clarke brought 22 students to see how leadership skills learned in class might be applied on a Research and Education Center. Throughout the visit, Dr.
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The Biochar Blog: Article

NRCS Conservation Practice Standards

April 18, 2019
By Milton E Mcgiffen
NRCS Conservation Practice Standards are a determinant of how we farm, funding, and a variety of other things. Many in the biochar community felt the Standards sold biochar short. Well...
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UC Davis medical entomologist Geoffrey Attardo shows Sebastian and Kamila Ehrlich examples of what insects they might want to see in virtual reality. In back is their mother, Carollina Ehrlich. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

'Adventure Awaited' at Virtual Reality Demonstration

April 17, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Adventure Awaits!" the theme proclaimed. And that it did Saturday at the 105th annual UC Davis Picnic Day--especially at the second annual "Virtual Reality Bugs" display at Briggs Hall, the administrative home of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
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sheep grazing
From Soil to Science: Article

Rx Grazing School

April 17, 2019
By Stephanie R Larson
Working landscape ecosystems provide benefits to the landowner and to all life forms living or passing through that land. Neighbors benefit with open viewscapes, to clean water and air, and carbon sequestration from well-maintained working landscapes rangelands, grassland, and open space.
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The Riverside Washington Navel tree surrounded by open fencing in this 1932 picture. View the Riverside Press-Enterprise to see a photo of the large steel structure that now looms over the tree. (Photo: Department of Interior)
ANR News Blog: Article

Riverside Washington Navel gets additional protection

April 16, 2019
By Jeannette Warnert
The city of Riverside is taking steps to protect a 143-year-old Washington Navel orange tree - the tree that parented most navel oranges alive today, reported the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
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Seedling bindweed
Notes in the Margins: Agronomy and Weed Science Musings: Article

Know your weed seedlings: Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

April 15, 2019
Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) is a perennial vine native to the Mediterranean region of Europe and Northern Africa that has become naturalized throughout much of the world. The species can reproduce vegetatively (through the spread of rhizomes) and via seed production.
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