January 21, 2026 Can you name the plant genus that includes a huge percentage of our cool weather food crops, and includes the third most important oilseed crop in the world? Also in this genus is an invasive weed that starves out all competition, common throughout our Southwest, California, Utah, and Mexico. The genus is […]
December 28, 2025 Our friend’s new cat, Nora, won’t come out from under the couch. I wanted to help so I gave Nora the CD, Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, hoping to reduce the cat’s tension. Why this piece of music? Because in the reading that I have been doing on sound, music, and […]
November 30, 2025 I need a plan to solve a pest-related problem at FECO. So, I gathered more information and thought through alternative strategies – a good exercise for problem solving in general! San Jose scale (SJS) is a hemipterous (true bug) insect (Comstockaspis perniciosus). Perniciosus … get it? SJS is among the most invasive […]