Is your tree on death's door? Here's how to tell (LA Times) Jeanette Marantos, Feb. 28 Climate change, invasive species and even international trade are taking a serious toll on California trees.
National Public Radio highlighted a growing concern for San Joaquin Valley tree fruit and nut farmers - diminishing winter chill in an age of climate change. "Warm winters mess with nut trees' sex lives," reported Lauren Summer on Morning Edition.
Healthy Soils and Field Crop Meeting Ag Building Meeting Room, 142 Garden Highway, Yuba City Wednesday, February 19, 2020 ~ 8:45am - Noon 8:45 am Coffee and Registration 8:55 am Welcome Sarah Light, UCCE Farm Advisor, Sutter, Yuba, Colusa Counties Healthy Soils 9:00 am CDFA Healthy Soils Program Ove...
Get ready to contribute your iNaturalist observation skills to your local community organizations to help collect data for science! The 2020 City Nature Challenge is April 24-27.
How many different bumble bee species have you seen or photographed this year? Have you seen the black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus? It's the earliest to emerge in this area. We photographed several B. melanopygus on Jan. 25 near downtown Benicia.
If you were thinking of trying to net a cabbage white butterfly to win Art Shapiro's "Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest"--a butterfly for a pitcher of beer, or its equivalent--you're too late. The contest is over. No winner this year.
The Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest is not over. Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology who annually sponsors the contest in the three-county area of Sacramento, Solano and Yolo to determine the first flight of the cabbage white butterfly, sighted one on Thursday, Jan.
News flash: Monarch sighting in Sacramento! Butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, spotted a monarch in Sacramento on Wednesday, Jan. 29--way, way, way early to see monarchs in this area. But it wasn't in his transect.
Healthy Soils and Field Crop Meeting Ag Building Meeting Room, 142 Garden Highway, Yuba City Wednesday, February 19, 2020 ~ 8:45am - Noon 8:45 am Coffee and Registration 8:55 am Welcome Sarah Light, UCCE Farm Advisor, Sutter, Yuba, Colusa Counties Healthy Soils 9:00 am CDFA Healthy Soils Program Ove...
