Agriculture

The Bohart Museum of Entomology will dedicate its open house, Night at the Museum (formerly known as Moth Night) to the late Jerry Powell, longtime director of the Essig Museum Entomology of UC Berkeley, and an international authority on moths. He died July 8 in Berkeley at age 90.

With rice pushing fully through the water and with many fields now a vibrant green, tadpole shrimp season has passed in California's rice fields.

When the Bohart Museum of Entomology of UC Davis hosts a Night at the Museum (formerly known as Moth Night) it will be dedicated to the late Jerry Powell, longtime director of the Essig Museum Entomology, UC Berkeley, and an international authority on moths. He died July 8 in Berkeley at age 90.

Unlike other plants, avocado (Persea americana Mill.), is not a host for very many viral diseases.

Professor Jerry Alan Powell, an international authority on Lepidoptera and a longtime director of the Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley, died July 8 in Berkeley at age 90.

La Universidad de California en Davis dio a conocer cinco nuevas variedades de fresas que son resistentes a la enfermedad de marchitamiento por Fusarium y tienen un alto grado de produccin y una calidad de fruta mejorada.

Perfect timing.

Rebecca Becky Wheeler-Dykes, the newly selected Cooperative Extension orchard systems and weed ecology advisor for Glenn, Tehama and Colusa counties, is a UC Davis alumna who grew up on a prune and walnut farm in Gridley, Butte County.

Implications for tequila growers Agave are a common sight in Southern California and are frequently used in landscaping for homes, businesses, and in public spaces. You've almost certainly seen agave growing in your neighborhood and may even have some growing yourself.

Pistachio production has been expanding, particularly into marginal soils with high salts, boron, and even sodic conditions. One plant that is endemic to these conditions, alkaliweed, has been reported in these orchards.