Backyard Orchard News
Celebrate Moths at the Bohart Museum on Saturday Night, July 30
Ready...set...go! It's almost time to celebrate moths! How much do you know about moths? Do you...
UC Davis entomology graduate student Jessica Gillung shows Atlas moths from the Bohart Museum collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
These moths are Rothschildia cincta, also known as giant silkworm moths. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Show Me the Honey!
Show me the honey! If you're a beekeeper in the United States and folks rave about your honey,...
A sunny day in the apiary--this is one of the scenes at Olivarez Honey Bees, Orland, Calif., owned by Ray Olivarez. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Rooftop beekeeping! Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (right, now emeritus) holds up a frame for a photograph. This photo was taken on the rooftop of the San Francisco Chronicle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee on a honey comb. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Find the Praying Mantis!
It's early evening and the bees are all over the blanket flower (Gaillardia). But wait, if you...
Find the praying mantis on the blanket flower (Gaillardia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis rotates his head, looking for prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hector Facundo, COS SURGE Intern begins summer project at LREC
Hector Facundo, a recent graduate of UC Davis with a major in Statistics, has commenced an...
College of the Sequoias SURGE intern Hector Facundo begins project at LREC.
Hector Facundo uses a pressure chamber to collect readings of midday stem water potential in young walnut trees.
Integrated pest management extension helps Guatemalan farmers.
As part of the Farmer-to-Farmer Program sponsored by the Partners of the Americas and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Walter Bentley, UCANR integrated pest management entomologist, emeritus, at Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center, and Washington State University entomologist Jay Brunner traveled to Guatemala in April to help growers improve the peach and apple industry. Their primary goal was to identify pest problems and possible solutions to help peach and apple growers improve fruit production, taking into account the region's unique climate.
Bentley and Brunner worked with the Asociación Nacional de Productores de Frutales Deciduos (ANAPDE) and its director, Armando Hernandez, to reach out to various growers in the area. Bentley and Brunner set out to identify insect and mite problems. Fortunately, they found that there were only a few entomological problems.
Jay Brunner (far left), Walter Bentley and Armando Hernandez (center), with family members from one of the Guatemalan farms visited in April, 2016.