Nevada

Seeing yellow these days? As inthose brightly-blooming yellow-flowering shrubs along roads and hillsides from the Bay Area to the Sierra Nevada foothills. BroomFrench, Spanish, and Scotchis in full spring bloom, even at higher elevations.

Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen isn't the only person coordinating a honey tasting at the UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 20. Amina Harris of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center will, too. She's offering honey tasting, along with arts and crafts for kids, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

If you don't like lima beans, not to worry. You'll probably like lima bean honey. Lima beans are a honey production crop, and this varietal is one of the six honeys to be sampled at the UC Davis Department of Entomology's free honey-tasting event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

There's no doubt about it. Bugs will rule at the 99th annual UC Davis Picnic Day this Saturday, April 20. The UC Davis Department of Entomology is planning lots of "bug" activities as part of the campuswide celebration.

Area Agronomy Advisor Serving Colusa, Sutter and Yuba Counties Across California, the University of Californias Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) is an engine for problem solving.

While there are several publications that provide information on the management of weeds in agricultural systems, there is currently no comprehensive book that provides control options for invasive and weedy species in natural areas. However, the first such book is now available.

Along scenic corridors, county roads and state highways of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, weedsespecially yellow starthistle and Italian thistleare creating solid stands of invasion that defy control.

A beer for a butterfly. What a deal. Whoever collects the first live cabbage white butterfly of 2013 in the three-county area of Yolo, Solano and Sacramento, can win a pitcher of beer, compliments of Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis.

It's exciting to see a son follow in the footsteps of his father: soon there will be more than one Hammock with a Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis.

The Gulf Fritillary is as fascinating as it is amazing. The showy reddish-orange butterfly (Agraulis vanillae) is making a comeback in the Sacramento-Davis area. In the early 1970s, it was considered extinct in that area.