Inyo-Mono

Nell Green Nylen is a Senior Research Fellow with the Wheeler Water Institute in the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) at Berkeley Law. Her research engages law, science, and policy to tackle critical California water issues. Nell earned a J.D. from Berkeley Law and a Ph.D.

The painted ladies are on the move. Have you seen these migratory butterflies, Vanessa cardui, passing through California on their way to the Pacific Northwest? Me? No! Zero. Zilch. Zip.

Immense numbers of introduced honey bees overwhelm native pollinators for access to pollen and nectar University of California - San Diego Hike around the natural habitats of San Diego County and it becomes abundantly clear that honey bees, foreign to the area, are everywhere.

Back in 2017, I wrote a brief blog about myrtle spurge being present in Lassen County. Myrtle spurge was evaluated by CDFA and determined to warrant being placed on the A list of noxious weeds here in California.

An article in the February-March 2019 issue of National Wildlife caught my attention.

Grapevine red blotch virus, a disease that is dramatically reducing the value of winegrapes in California's premium wine production region, is harming plants by inhibiting photosynthesis in the leaves, according to research published this month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Happy Presidents' Day. It's day we honor not only George Washington and Abraham Lincoln but all the men (no women yet!) who have served as President of the United States.

UCCE Agronomy and Weed Science Advisor, Merced and Madera Counties Weeds compete with crops for light, water, and nutrients, which can result in yield reductions.

All it takes is a rain shower and you'll see weeds everywhere. Weeds peeking through summer-dried leaves, popping above brittle twigs and languid stems, greening foothills and fields that weeks earlier were dusty brown. Weeds sprouting in yards and vegetable beds.

Floral terminology: Perfect vs imperfect, monoecious vs dioecious Perfect flowers: contain both male parts (stamens, the male fertilizing organ of a flower, typically consisting of a pollen-containing anther and a filament) and female parts (pistils, the female organs of a flower, comprising the sti...