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Have a Rice Day! (Except for the Armyworms)

It's a day that rice growers look forward to. Bugs, not so much. Because they're targeted. Especially the fall armyworms. California's 2015 rice season indicated unprecedented levels of armyworms--the highest of the last 25 years, according to Extension entomologist Larry Godfrey of the UC...

Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is a pest of rice. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia: Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility)

Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is a pest of rice. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia: Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility)

Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 5:51 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: California Rice Day (1), Extension entomologist (2), fall armyworm (1), insecticides (2), Larry Godfrey (10), Spodoptera frugiperda (1), UC Davis (415)

Noted Expert on Botanical Insecticides

Scores of people want to hear what Murray Isman has to say. And on Wednesday night, Oct. 27, they can. Murray Isman, a noted expert on botanical insecticides, will deliver the Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Seminar in Entomology at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 27 in the Activities and...

Murray Isman

MURRAY ISMAN, a noted expert on botanical insecticides, will deliver the Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Seminar in Entomology at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 27 in the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) at UC Davis. Isman, who received his doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 1981, is now the dean of Land and Food Systems and professor of applied biology (entomology/toxicology) at the University of British Columbia.

Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 6:03 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

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Posts Tagged: Insecticides

Have a Rice Day! (Except for the Armyworms)

Noted Expert on Botanical Insecticides

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