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Avocado growers: Your Participation is Needed Please

June 3, 2015
By Sonia I Rios
The California Avocado Commission is joining forces with Kevin Turner, UC Cooperative Extension goldspotted oak borer (GSOB) program coordinator (http://ucanr.edu/sites/gsobinfo/) in producing and distributing a number of roadside signs to help control the movement of pest infested firewood.
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Bee Research Buzzing at Cal State Channel Islands

January 13, 2014
Pollination ecologists have typically studied a focal plant species and one or a few closely related pollinator taxa, such as bumblebees, which fostered the view that plant-pollinator relationships are highly specialized.
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Honey bee foraging on hebe. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A 'She Bee' on a Hebe

January 27, 2012
A "she bee" on a hebe. That has a nice ring to it. It was Jan. 7, an unseasonably warm day for winter and we decided to take advantage of it by driving to the Loch Lomond Marina in San Rafael.
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PESTY YELLOWJACKET--A Western yellowjacket (Vespula pensylvanica) sips water from a watering device at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Seeing Yellow (and Black)

October 5, 2010
So you're planning a big barbecue, a garden party or a wedding reception. You want to make sure that Mr. and Mrs. Yellowjacket and all their offspring--plus nephews, nieces, uncles, aunts, cousins and assorted other relatives--aren't on the invite list.
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MONARCH BUTTERFLY (Danaus plexippus), shown here in the Luther Burbank Gardens, Santa Rosa, is one of the butterflies that Art Shapiro has studied for the last 35 years. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Fleeting Butterflies

January 19, 2010
It's good to see those fluttering butterflies back in the news again. But they are fleeting butterflies.
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