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15 simple ways to participate in California Invasive Species Action Week, Aug. 2 - 10

Help the California Department of Fish and Wildlife celebrate their first annual California Invasive Species Action Week, Aug. 2 – 10, and protect California's diverse landscapes. Hundreds of invasive plants and animals have already established themselves in California's landscapes and...

Weekly food dispatch

Editor's note: Today we launch a “Weekly food dispatch” in the UC Food Blog. It will appear every Friday. The dispatch is a compilation of news from the World Wide Web relevant to the UC Global Food Initiative. To suggest stories for next week, email...

Please Don't Eat the Pollinators!

If I were in charge of a praying mantis' daily diet, I would enforce one stringent rule: "Please don't eat the pollinators! Do not, I repeat, target the bees or butterflies. Leave them alone!" The mundane menu would include flies, gnats, stink bugs, aphids, mosquitoes, yellowjackets, grasshoppers,...