Rangelands

o you want to help residents of San Bernardino County garden and landscape more sustainably; grow food in home, school, and community gardens; and improve the health of our communities?

When the Entomological Society of America honored its President's Prize winners at its recent meeting in Denver, it did so "picture perfect." At the awards podium, each winning graduate student held up an empty frame lettered with "Student Competition Winner." And filled the frame.

When doctoral student Danielle Rutkowski of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology received the President's Prize in her category for her research presentation at the recent Entomological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Denver, the prize was not only special but so was the photogra...

Working in partnership with CALFIRE Nevada-Yuba-Placer, sheriff's offices, and offices of emergency services in Placer, Nevada, and Yuba Counties, the livestock community established a 3-county Livestock Access Pass program for commercial livestock producers.

I have called California Home for the past 6 years since starting this position and the past two summers are unlike any I have experienced in the west.

Why did you decide to apply to the UCCE Master Gardener program in San Bernardino County? I decided to become a UCCE Master Gardener because I was interested in improving my knowledge in pesticide -free food production.

One potato, two potato, three potato...four... Well, make that "one potato bug, two potato bugs, three potato bugs...four." The potato bug, also known as a Jerusalem cricket, seems to be everywhere in the Bay Area after the heavy rains.

Gabriel Zilnik, a researcher at USDA's Agricultural Research Service, in Wapato, Wash. will be the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's next speaker. He'll deliver a virtual seminar on "Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning" at 4:10 p.m.

It's Veterans' Day, the day we officially salute, honor and commemorate our military veterans. Let's pay special tribute to the servicemen and women who left the family farm to serve in our military. They were the farmers who fed the nation.

If you attended the Entomological Society of America's 2021 meeting last week in Denver, you probably saw a monarch laying eggs. That is, you saw a photograph of a Danaus plexippus ovipositing. The image, by Joe Virbickis of Washington, Ill.