By By LINDA JONES Summer is the “time of the garden,” when flowers are riotously blooming and fruit and vegetables are ripening. However, you may find you’re not the only one enjoying the fruits of your labors. In order to support their next generation, many nonvertebrate pests, such as aphids and snails, may be eating leaves, […]
By Michael Harrelson April showers bring May flowers… and weeds, lots of weeds. A weed is defined by the Weed Science Society of America as, “Any plant that is objectionable or interferes with activities or welfare of mankind”. It isn’t just a thistle, foxtail or crabgrass you recognize immediately as unwanted and pluck it out. A […]
By Greg Alder Winter is almost here and as temperatures drop it is time for backyard gardeners to start thinking about certain fruit tree maintenance. Attending to the needs of your trees now will improve the health of your plant and promote better flower and fruit production later in the growing season. This does not […]
TO FEAR OR NOT TO FEAR, THAT IS THE QUESTION By James A. Bethke Many years ago, I collected black widows, Latrodectus hesperus, from my yard (almost 50) and gave them to Rick Vetter, a friend from the Entomology Department at UC Riverside, so that he could extract spider venom in search of a […]
Presence of near-invisible chilli thrip detected by deformed, discolored blooms By RITA PERWICH (This article first appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune on April 4, 2019) When I was a child, I was scared of the jabberwocky and other similar monsters. I outgrew those fears, but I am presently filled with even greater anxiety about […]
