Posts Tagged: Drought
The Effect of the Drought on Insects
The severe California drought--we're in the fourth year--is affecting us all, but it's also...
he drought has caused a number of immature praying mantids to die for lack of food. This is a female female Stagmomantis californica, as identified by Andrew Pfeiffer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jeff Mitchell serves on drought resilience panel at the Berkeley Food Institute.
In their capacity as California Agriculture Systems Innovation members, Jeff Mitchell, Cooperative Extension cropping systems specialist at the UC ANR Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center and in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis specializing in vegetable cropping systems, irrigation management, soil quality, organic soil amendments, extension models, and postharvest physiology and innovative conservation agriculture farmer John Diener of Red Rock Ranch in Five Points, CA were part of a panel organized by the Berkeley Food Institute that discussed "farming practices to reduce risks tied to drought." Read more.
See the video of the panel discussion.
Jeff Mitchell and John Diener discussing farming practices to reduce risks tied to drought.
Love the List
Bees and other pollinators may have a tough time during the fourth year of California's severe...
A honey bee foraging on anemone. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A cuckoo bee foraging on a gum plant. This insect is Triepeolus (maybe Epeolus), says native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, distingished emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. The little bug on the right appears to be a lygaeid bug nymph, according to Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) is a drought-tolerant annual. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Posse for the Pieiris?
In case you've forgotten amid all the horn-blowing, champagne-sipping and singing of "Auld Lang...
Cabbage white butterfly on catmint. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's That Wet Stuff?
What's that wet stuff falling from California skies? Could it be the "R" word, rain? Or...
Rain drops falling on a lady beetle, aka ladybug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)