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Bagrada bug now on Avocado

September 4, 2014
By Ben A Faber
Just when you thought we knew all the devastating pests of avocado, along comes another one, this showing up in the Piru area of Ventura County - bagrada bug. The infestation is in huge numbers covering the stems and leaves of the tree, leaving fecal droppings on the backsides of leaves.
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Salt and Gypsum

August 22, 2014
By Ben A Faber
With the drought our perpetual salt problems are exacerbated due to less water and often more saline water. The question keeps coming up if gypsum (calcium sulfate) can help correct the problem. And the answer is maybe, but along the coast, probably not.
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Final week for comment on UC Advisor and Specialist position proposals

July 14, 2014
By Brad Hanson
This post is a quick reminder that this is the last week for public comment on 123 proposed UC Cooperative Extension positions (closes July 21st). The proposed positions are listed at this website and you can read the 2-page proposal and see any comments by clicking on the position title.
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Bagrada bug is now in Santa Barbara County

September 7, 2012
It was in last January when I first wrote about the invasive pest Bagrada bug (Bagrada hilaris). It was only reported in Imperial, Riverside, and Orange Counties at that time.
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Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (left) of UC Davis with California State Beekeepers' Association president Bryan Ashurst of Westmorland. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Land of Milk and Honey

March 26, 2012
At the entrance, the recent California Agriculture Day celebration on the west lawn of the State Capitol looked like the land of milk and honey. The first booth, operated by the Dairy Council of California, handed out milk.
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PETER BILLINGSLEY, shown here working in Tanzania, will speak on "Development of a Mosquito-Derived, Attenuated Whole Parasite Vaccine against Malaria" on Friday, Dec. 3 at UC Davis. His talk is from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in the Genome Center Auditorium, 1005 Genome and Biological Sciences Facility, 451 Health Sciences Drive.
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Targeting Malaria, Working Toward a.Vaccine

December 1, 2010
It's exciting work, and he'll be at UC Davis to tell us about it. Peter F. Billingsley (right), senior director of Entomology and Quality Systems at Sanaria Inc., Rockville, Md., will speak on "Development of a Mosquito-Derived, Attenuated Whole Parasite Vaccine against Malaria" on Friday, Dec. 3.
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FIRST SPEAKER--Julien Pelletier, a postdoctoral scholar in the Walter Leal chemical ecology lab at UC Davis, is the first speaker in the UC Davis Department of Entomology spring seminar series. His topic: "Mining the Genome for Olfactory Proteins." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bugs, Bugs & Bugs

March 29, 2010
If spring has sprung--and it has--it's also time to spring forward the next batch of noonhour seminars at the UC Davis Department of Entomology. The spring lectures are held every Wednesday, March 31 through May 26, from 12:10 to 1 p.m., in 122 Briggs Hall, Kleiber Drive.
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