Backyard Orchard News
Neonics and Bumble Bees
Research published today in the journal Nature about neonicintoid pesticide exposure and...
A yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) foraging on a tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Neonics are hindering bumble bees' ability to pollinate apples, a UK study has found. This photo shows Gravenstein apples in Sebastopol. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
BugShot Austin 2016!
If you like to photograph insects, and want to know more about macro photography and entomology,...
Alex Wild shows photographers some white box techniques at BugShot Hastings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
John Abbott discusses camera equipment for macro photography at BugShot Hastings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
John Abbott discusses camera equipment for macro photography at BugShot Hastings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Capturing an image of a lady beetle at BugShot Hastings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Off to photograph insects at BugShot Hastings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gulf Fritillaries: Spectacular and Showy
Sex in the afternoon. On the passionflower vine. That's what happened today on the...
Gulf Fritillaries (Agraulis vanillae) mating on a passionflower vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mating of the Gulf Fritillaries resumes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In this photograph, note the silver-spangled wings of the mating Gulf Fritillaries. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The showy and spectacular Gulf Fritillaries. The shadow is a Passiflora leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC ANR online courses offer continuing education units
—Cheryl Reynolds, UC Statewide IPM Program
Are you looking for continuing education units (CEUs) to complete your renewal application this year for the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR)? The UC Statewide IPM Program and the Lindcove Research and Extension Center have several online courses available that can help you get those last few needed credits. All courses can be found on the UC ANR Learning Management System. Be sure to spend at least 1 hour on each unit to receive credit.
DPR license and certificate holders with last names beginning with M – Z renew this year. Renewal packets must be submitted to DPR before November 19th to ensure that licenses are renewed by January 1, 2016. After that, applications may take up to 45 calendar days to process.
The online courses available from UC IPM that offer units for DPR license renewal include:
- Providing Integrated Pest Management Services in Schools and Child Care Settings (1 unit Laws and Regulations and 1 unit Other)
- Pesticide Resistance (2 units Other)
- Pesticide Application Equipment and Calibration (1.5 units Other)
- IPM – A Solution for Reducing Pesticides/Water Quality: Pesticide Properties (1 unit Other)
- The Impact of Pesticides on Water Quality/Mitigating Urban Pesticide Runoff (1 unit Other)
- Water Quality and Mitigation: Bifenthrin and Fipronil (1 unit Other)
- Herbicides and Water Quality (1 unit Other)
Six additional courses on key pests of citrus are also available for DPR units and were developed by Beth-Grafton Cardwell from the Lindcove Research and Extension Center. These include:
- California Red Scale (1 unit Other)
- Citricola Scale (1 unit Other)
- Citrus Red Mite (1 unit Other)
- Cottony Cushion Scale (1 unit Other)
- Forktailed Bush Katydid (1 unit Other)
- Citrus Peelminer (1 unit Other)
For a list of other approved online or in-person courses, visit the DPR website. UC IPM plans to add additional online courses for 2016, including those available for Laws and Regulations units. For more information about the courses UC IPM offers as well as additional training opportunities and pest management information, see the UC IPM web site.
Can You Feel the Synergy?
When the Entomological Society of America meets Nov. 15-18 in Minneapolis, Minn., it will be all...
Karl Kjer, newly appointed Schlinger Chair of Systematic Entomology in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will deliver a Premier Presentation at the ESA meeting. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)