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A recent blog by Farm Advisor Rachel Freeman Long in Yolo/Solano/Sacramento Counties alerted me to a weed that I thought was mainly a northern California plant. http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.

Los Angeles County Spring 2018 ISHB/GSOB Field Trainings Registration now open Learn how to recognize the signs of invasive shot hole borer and gold spotted oak borer infestations in native and landscape trees.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have made an important step in understanding the molecular mechanism of huanglongbing (HLB), a destructive disease that is a serious threat to the citrus industry worldwide.

Speakers that will be presenting at all three locations: Beth Grafton-Cardwell, Ph.D., Director of Lindcove REC & Research Entomologist, University of California, Riverside Melinda Klein, Ph.D.

Ambrosia beetles comprise a group of over 6,000 species in the Scolytinae subfamily. Most of these beetles typically attack decomposing and dead trees. The Polyphagous/Kuroshio Shot Borers have been reports on over 300 landscape and wildland living tree species, including avocado.