Backyard Orchard News
California Red Scale Winding Down
The graph below shows the male California red scale pheromone trap catches (green) and the crawler tape catches (red) for a citrus orchard at Lindcove. The scale activity is finally starting to wind down as the night temperatures cool. Male flights peaked at Lindcove this year during March, mid-mid June, late July and early September. Four generations of crawler activity occurred during Mid May, early July, mid-August, and late September. The male flight and crawler activity seems to be winding down now. It may pick up a bit if the daytime weather stays warm, but usually the females stop producing crawlers around November 1.
California red scale data for Lindcove 2012
October Lindcove Tour Highlights
On October 12, Lindcove REC provided a post-conference tour for the attendees of...
Rock Christiano leads a tour of the screenhouses
Tracy Kahn encourages early mandarin variety tasting
Therese Kapaun, Jose Hernandez and Don Cleek demonstrate the fruit grading system
No Preying When You're Sprayed
One thing's for certain--a praying mantis does not like to get wet. If it were human, it would not...
Praying mantis, accidentally splashed with a water, tries to remove the droplets. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Drenched praying mantis raises a foreleg. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Plants, Pollinators and UC Davis
If you've never been to a UC Davis Arboretum plant sale, you should. The last plant sale of the...
Honey bee on a cenizo, Leucophyllum frutescens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee on a white flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa "Contorta." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee on winter jasmine, Jasminum nudiflorum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's That Caterpillar?
What's that caterpillar? This little fellow (or gal) was munching--quite contentedly, thank...
Close-up of a Smerinthus cerisyi caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Smerinthus cerisyi caterpillar on aspen leaves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Smerinthus cerisyi adult taken by Shawn Hanrahan at the Texas A&M University Insect Collection in College Station, Texas. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)