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Avocado Survey for Ambrosia Beetle

October 18, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Oct 10, 2024 Dr. Paul Rugman-Jones is collaborating with University of Florida researchers on a project called, "Sustaining avocado production in the face of the lethal laurel wilt disease".
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Inside the Avocado

October 14, 2024
By Ben A Faber
A new way of looking at plant nutrition? Frost damage? Disease? Heat damage? Research team at the University of Gttingen develops method for recognizing cell properties Checking whether an avocado is hard or soft by looking at it?
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Ag Help Manual

October 11, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Ag Help Wanted is an educational guidebook designed to assist every person who currently manages or expects to manage human resources on farms, ranches, nurseries, dairies, and other agricultural operations.
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A crab spider eating a lygus bug, an agricultural pest in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Celebrating the Crab Spider in Arachtober

October 9, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's Arachtober and that means celebrating arachnids for the entire month of October. Well, we ought to celebrate them year around, but October is THEIR month.
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A screen shot from the seminar of apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada of Texas A&M.
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Learning About the Bees and the Nutrition They Need

October 8, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you missed the eagerly anticipated UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar by apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada, an associate professor at Texas A&M and an international leader in honey bee research, not to worry. Her Oct. 7th seminar was recorded.
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