Integrated Pest Management

If you like melons, you won't like these beetles. But if you're Jasmin Ramirez Bonilla, a UC Davis graduate student in entomology, you're seeking to control these agricultural pests through more effective integrated pest management (IPM) strategies.

The UC Master Gardener Program engages 6000+ volunteers annually to extend practical, research-based home horticulture, integrated pest management, and sustainable landscaping information to the residents of California.

I am excited to announce that the 2020 Master Gardener Program class has graduated! This year it was an unpredictable journey that I'd like to share with you. Our dedicated group of trainees began an intensive learning program in January, meeting each week for 4 hours.

No one likes aphids or cucumber beetles. No one welcomes slugs to their daily feast.

Looking back at my lifelong relationship with gardening, from doing a lot to doing a little, I have been reflecting on why I have always tried to garden or visit gardens no matter where I was.

El-kereamy named Lindcove REC director Ashraf El-kereamy will be the new director of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Lindcove Research & Extension Center, starting on July 1, 2020.

By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Although the nursery rhyme tells us that Little Miss Muffet was frightened by them, spiders are in fact beneficial insects.

UC Cooperative Extension integrated pest management advisor Cheryl Wilen retired in April after serving UC Agriculture and Natural Resources in a wide variety of leadership and academic capacities during her 25-year career.

Extracted from the UC ANR News & Events blog (https://ucanr.

Hats off to the communicators affiliated with the University of California, Davis, and the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) for their international awards.