UC ANR Blogs
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Tomorrow will be a better day yet!
The meeting over the long weekend in San Diego is rarely my favorite meeting, but I managed to leave with some reading. I need to become more of a reader if I am to keep up with it. A manuscript I hope to read talks about the changing role of higher...
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A Quiet Veterans' Day
It's Veterans' Day, and after paying tribute to the military veterans (my ancestors have fought in all of our nation's wars, dating back to the American Revolution--and my other half is a U.S. Air Force veteran), I slip out the back door to our...
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Pajaro Valley Fall CropManage Hands-on Workshop on Nov. 20th
Pajaro Valley CropManageWorkshop Bringing CropManage to the Field Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 8:00am – 12:00pm LUNCH PROVIDED Location: UC Cooperative Extension...
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Protecting Your Home Orchard from Aphids
They plague every gardener's nightmares. Like something from a sci-fi movie, they are green with long legs and antennae and long piercing mouths with which they suck out fluids. They eat 100 times their body weight, and—worst of...
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Learn How to Raise Praying Mantids, Butterflies and Other Insects
Ever wanted to raise praying mantids, butterflies, silkworm moths and other insects? Or arachnids such as tarantulas? Scientists at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology will help you do just that. They've scheduled an open house on “Arthropod...