Inyo-Mono

On the path to pain, a little pleasure can unfold.

Mechanisms of insecticide resistance in insects. Use of biopesticides or non-chemical pesticides is encouraged as a part of integrated pest management (IPM) for environmental and human safety and to reduce the risk of insecticide resistance.

See those red spots on your milkweed seed pods? Lady beetles (aka ladybugs or "garden heroes") are feasting on aphids. And they're having a ball. We've been watching the critters on our milkweed, Gomphocarpus physocarpus, for the last couple of months.

This is the adventure of a livestock advisor trying to find a way to kill a fig tree. Normally we are doing our best to make fruit trees grow. In this case, Rebecca Ozeran had to find the best way to kill figs that were fouling the range.

Diseases, disorders and other plant problems are critical concerns for the wholesale nursery.

Wild pigs currently exist in 56 of California's 58 counties and can be found in a variety of habitats ranging from woodland, chaparral, meadow, grasslands and in agriculture cropping systems.

As a livestock and natural resources advisor, I don't expect to get questions about fruit trees such as figs.

Dr. Jeff Stott, UC Cooperative Extension Professor of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology at UC Davis, recently gave a talk on foothill abortion at a producer meeting in San Luis Obispo County. Click this link to see his PowerPoint presentation: http://cesanluisobispo.ucanr.edu/files/267719.pdf.

Life stages of spotted-wing drosophila (Photos by Elizabeth Beers, Washington State University) Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii is an invasive pest that attacks many cultivated and wild fruits.

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. Tufts University has released results of a study linking eating avocados to helping improve cognitive brain function in older adults, news especially relevant to Hispanics who have been found to have the longest life expectancy rate in the U.S.