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 […]
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 […]
September 24, 2025 You might be thinking this is about rats No. It’s about squirrels that are driving us bats The squirrels are fat pigs They ate all the figs They are basically behaving like brats To Ravenna Blvd, I pointed the way Hoping that there the squirrels might stay The oaks fill the street […]