Agriculture

You may have seen her sharing information about honey bees at the annual California Agriculture Day at the State Capitol, Sacramento.

Chuck Ingels, longtime UCCE advisor in Sacramento County, lost his battle with cancer Aug. 12. Ingels joined ANR in 1989 as a tree and vine information analyst for the statewide Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program in Davis.

Katie Driver, a Ph.D. student in the Al-Khatib Lab at UC Davis, was awarded the 2018 D. Marlin Brandon Rice Research Fellowship. Katie's work focuses on controlling bearded sprangletop in California rice fields.

Just call them the "incredible aphid-eating machines." That would be the lady beetles, commonly known as ladybugs (although they are not bugs; they're beetles belonging to the family Coccinellidae, and they're not all "ladies"--some are male!).

Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) is a perennial plant in the Convolvulaceae family (which is also the family of dodder (Cuscuta spp.), morningglories (Ipomoea spp.), and alkaliweed (Cressa truxillensis)).

Farmers work long hours under the open sky, struggling to finish each day's planting, cultivating, pruning or picking before the sun sets.

Three faculty members from the University of California, Davis, will be among those sharing the "people" spotlight at the joint meeting of the XXVII Brazilian Congress and X Latin American Congress of Entomology --and the spotted wing drosophila will be among the insects sharing the "insect" spotlig...

Three University of California, Davis faculty members will play major roles at a joint meeting of the XXVII Brazilian Congress and X Latin American Congress of Entomology, to be held Sept. 2-6 in Gramado, Brazil.

2018 Alfalfa and Forage Field Day Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center 9240 S. Riverbend Ave.

It has been a couple of rough weeks managing the diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), in the Central Coast.