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For over 100 years, our advisors, specialists, faculty and staff have been committed to:

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UC Blogs
  • Rice (photo credit: Brad Hooker)
    New herbicides bring additional tools to California rice weed management in 2024

    This year brings several new chemical tools to California rice. With many herbicide-resistant species as well as emerging problematic weed species, the new chemistries are a welcome tool for managing resistance and preventing the selection of resistant...

  • A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, sipping nectar from an Amethyst Sea Holly, Eryngium amethystinum, in Sonoma. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
    USC Biologist on 'Trends of Bee Biodiversity in North America'

    Bee biodiversity? It promises to be an interesting seminar.  Assistant professor Laura "Melissa" Guzman of the University of Southern California (USC) will discuss "Using Occupancy Models to Infer Trends of Bee Biodiversity in North...

  • Robert Peck, an entomologist with the University of Hawaii won first prize in the PBESA Photo Salon competition with this image of a damselfly. (Copyright, Robert Peck)
    Winning PBESA Images: A Damselfly, a Blowfly and a Monarch

    An image of a damselfly photographed in Hawaii, and images of a blowfly and a monarch photographed in California won the Photo Salon recently hosted by the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA) Photo Salon coordinator Joshua Milnes,...

  • A yellow-faced bumble bee,Bombus vosnesenskii, buzzes into a barely opened California golden poppy in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
    There Is No Planet 'B'

    There is no "Planet B."  The Earth is all we have. Today, April 22, is Earth Day (an annual event launched April 22, 1970) and what a perfect occasion to celebrate a native bee and a native wildflower.  Bombus vosnesenskii,aka the...

  • Interviews on electric weeding research
    Electric weed control research updates

    From the eOrganic and Performance and Economics of Electric Weed Control in Organic Perennial Crops Project: Electric Weeding Research Updates (Click HERE to see the presentations) Electric Weed Control in Orchards • Tong Zhen, Ph.D....

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