Agriculture

UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Pokeweed: A giant of a weed!

August 15, 2018
By Scott R Oneto
This is a follow up article to a blog that my colleague, Guy Kyser wrote back in 2011 titled Purple alert: Common Pokeweed. Since that time, I probably get a dozen or so calls this time of year asking, what is that huge weed growing in my yard with dark black berries and big green leaves.
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Longhorned bees--Melissodes (possibly M. robustior) slumbering on a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

What's Not to Love About 'Boys' Night Out'?

August 15, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We look forward to "The Boys' Night Out." Ah, pillow fights, popcorn, and marathon movies on TV, you ask? No. "Boys' Night Out" is when the longhorned male bees in our pollinator garden in Vacaville engage in sleepovers on our Mexican sunflowers (Tithonia) and other blossoms.
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Dr. David Headrick elevated into tree canopy placing mesh cages around infested branches of ficus tree on Higher Street, downtown SLO.
UC Master Gardeners- Diggin' it in SLO: Article

Taking Biological Control to New Heights

August 15, 2018
By Maria Murrietta
Next time you're on Higuera St. in downtown SLO, look up. Cal Poly entomology professor, Dr. David Headrick, is taking biological control to new heights! Here's his story: An invasive whitefly pest is attacking our giant fig trees in downtown SLO.
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Dry Bean Field Day, UC Davis
UC Dry Bean Blog: Article

Dry Bean Field Meeting, UC Davis, Thursday, August 23, 2018, 10 am- 12:30 pm

August 15, 2018
By Rachael Long
UC Davis Agronomy Farm Directions: In the field across from the UC Davis Bee Biology Lab (same place as previous years). From Hwy 113 in Davis, exit on Hutchison Dr. Go west, turn north at the first roundabout, then west at the second roundabout. Continue west on Hutchison Dr for about 1 mile.
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The avocado, often thought of as a vegetable, is really a fruit and it's packed with potassium. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Food Blog: Article

Why 'AA' is for Avocado Addict

August 15, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you're like most of us, you go bananas for a banana for breakfast. It's healthy, nutritious and packed with potassium. But wait! You should probably go bananas for another fruit--that pear-shaped avocado. Did you know the avocado provides more potassium than a banana? It does.
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USDA forest research entomologist Steve Seybold (foreground) and UC Davis doctoral student Corwin Parker peel bark to reveal larvae of bark beetles and wood borers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Bohart Museum Open House to Emphasize 'Fire and Insects'

August 13, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology will emphasize "fire and insects" when it hosts an open house, Extreme Insects: Fire and Ice, on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 19. The public event, to take place from 1 to 4 p.m.
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Children of California migratory workers react to seeing a Madagacar hissing cockroach at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. A news story by Kathy Keatley Garvey, communications specialist for the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, won the gold award in newswriting at the ACE conference. She also won a silver award for her "Once Upon a Monarch" post on her Bug Squad blog. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

UC Davis, UC ANR Communicators Bring Home the Gold, Silver and Bronze

August 9, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Six communicators affiliated with the University of California, Davis, or the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) received a total of 10 awards for excellence at the 2018 conference of the international Association for Communication Excellence in Agricultu...
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