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New Invasive Pests Webinar Mini-Series

July 22, 2025
Invasive species are reshaping California’s natural and urban landscapes. UC IPM’s new Invasive Species Mini-Series explores the many ways invasive species impact our lives, from harmful garden pests and aquatic hitchhikers to destructive tree pests, invasive weeds, and the policies that guide prevention and…
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EUI vs Bakanae

July 22, 2025
By Luis A Espino
I got a question the other day about the issue of elongated upper internode (EUI). The EUI is a genetic defect where the internode right below the panicle gets unusually long, making the panicle stick up above the canopy. The incidence of this defect varies with year, but it does not have a negative effect…
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A Morning Surprise

July 22, 2025
Blog by Karen MetzI am fortunate to have a friend who is a wonderful vegetable gardener.  She generously shares her bounty with my family.  We have had special deliveries to our front porch over several months. We started with kale, winter squash, and beets, and then moved to herbs, zucchini,…
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Pink pipevine caterpillar
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Pipe Cleaner Caterpillars

July 21, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 "Fuzzy Wuzzy" was not a bear. "Fuzzy Wuzzy" was--and is--a pink pipe cleaner caterpillar. And sometimes it comes in yellow, green, orange, blue, white or red.Pipe cleaners are used to clean smoking pipes, ridding them of residue and moisture. But as chenille stems, they find themselves in a wide…
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Small farms, food businesses to lose vital USDA support

July 21, 2025
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
 Southwest Food Business Center seeks new path to keep small farms and food businesses growingApryl Sims was excited to sell 100 bottles of her cold-pressed, fruit and vegetable-based juices to a local store in South Los Angeles. Sims, the owner of Apryl’s Life in a Bottle, received marketing…
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Branched broomrape hand weeding and heat treatment

July 21, 2025
By Brad Hanson
Branched broomrape hand weeding and heat treatmentPershang Hosseini, Magdalene Burgess, Rohith Vulchi, Ni Tang, Brad Hanson (UC Davis) IntroductionBranched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa) is an obligate root parasitic weed that can affect a wide range of crops, most notably processing tomato in…
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Tomatoes Not Producing

July 21, 2025
By Help Desk Team
Note: This article was previously published in 2018. We are rerunning it because we are noticing this happening in many gardens right now.Client's Request: Why no tomatoes? Starting to get lots of flowers but almost NO tomatoes? Plants look very healthy. I live in central Contra Costa County.MGCC Help Desk…
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artichoke plant with purple flowers showing
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Lazy Days of Summer

July 21, 2025
Blog by Tina Saravia The last 3 afternoons, I’ve been sitting in a spot in the front garden between the tree collard and the pomegranate (Punica granatum), giving me enough shade so I can hang out with Adeli and Maggie May, our two happy chickens, digging for bugs, a.k.a. pest control. While I watch…
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A new life for sawmills: UC ANR’s Haris Gilani leads wood products innovation project in San Bernardino and Fresno counties 

July 21, 2025
By Grace N Dean
When seeking to make forests more fire resilient, removing fuels from the landscape is a tough task to make cost-effective. Thinning and limbing trees during fuels reduction treatments will sometimes produce marketable timber, but more often will produce small-diameter wood pieces that have traditionally…
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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug on Avocado
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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Again

July 21, 2025
By Ben A Faber
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug showed up in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties about 12 years ago. It had been roaming around LA and Orange Counties before that.  There was a small outbreak on avocados at the time, but it was mainly seen on a lot of other plant species, like tomatoes.  We have not seen…
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[PODCAST] Home Grown Tomatoes
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[PODCAST] Preserving Vegetables From Your Garden Part 1

July 18, 2025
Your Spring garden has been producing a bounty of warm season crops. What to do with all the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and such you are bringing in from your beds? This week on In the Garden with UCCE Master Gardeners, UC Master Gardener Katrina Kirkeby will talk with the late chef, historian,…
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Delta rice variety trial
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Weedy Rice Meeting

July 18, 2025
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
This article provides information about the upcoming UCCE Weedy Rice Meeting.
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Mint moth (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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How Moths Differ from Butterflies

July 18, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 How do moths differ from butterflies?Scientists at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis answered questions and displayed both moths and butterflies at their recent Moth Night, in observation of National Moth Week, July 19-27. Bohart associates Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection…
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freesia corms and smaller cormels
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Good News for Lazy Bulb Planters

July 18, 2025
Blog by Patricia MattesonYou’re looking at a sorely overgrown, post-bloom pot of freesias, crowded by three years of self-propagation via cormels that sprout from the main corm or develop at the base of leaves. Once the plants in this pot entered summer dormancy, I set out to dig up the corms for replanting…
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A crowd begins to gather around the blacklighting demonstration. (Photo by Kristy Vasquez)
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How Many Species of Moths at Bohart Museum's Moth Night?

July 17, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 Curious minds want to know.How many species of moths did scientists detect in the blacklighting demonstration at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's annual Moth Night, held Saturday, July 12?"We caught a total of 11 moths at the light sheet--five species in five different families," said Bohart Museum…
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Boomer the cat sniffing the stapelia flower
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Boomer vs. Stapelia

July 17, 2025
Blog by Michelle SchlegelSeveral years ago, an unusual succulent called Stapelia grandiflora f. cristata. It is a native of South Africa that thrives well in heat and is quite drought-tolerant. It has no leaves, but instead has fleshy, four-sided stems that grow to form clumps 8-12 inches tall and up to 3…
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CWSS Research Update (July 2025)

July 17, 2025
By Brad Hanson
The California Weed Science Society (CWSS) publishes a twice-yearly "CWSS Research Update and News" newsletter as one of the society's publications.  The July 2025 issue just went online and is available here: https://cwss.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CWSS_Research_Update-July-2025.pdf This issue…
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