Posts Tagged: clover
Solano County Fair, June 15-18: Bees, Butterflies and More
You might not expect to see Anthocharis sara sara in McCormack Hall during the 74th annual Solano County Fair, Vallejo, June 15-18. But you will. It's a photograph titled "Painted Wings" by Regan Van Tuyl, 13 of Dixon. UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro identified it as the...
A clerk at McCormack Hall, Solano County Fair, displays two junior division photos: one of a honey bee by Jesse Means of Dixon, and the other of a orange-tip butterfly by Regan Van Tuyl of Dixon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is a portion of a painting by Caitlin Douglas of Vallejo. It's titled "Clover Honey."
McCormack Hall superintendent Sharon Payne (left) and daughter Julianna Payne Brown, assistant superintendent, display a quilt.
Clover Research Published on St. Pat's Day: Luck o' the Irish?
When evolutionary ecologist Marc Johnson, a professor of biology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, and his team published their Global Urbanization Drives Adaptation in the Plant White Clover research today (March 17, St. Patrick's Day) in the journal Science, it...
Principal investigator (PI) Marc Johnson (far right) led the team with co-PI Rob Ness (far left), second author; and doctoral student James Santangelo (center), first author, all of the University of Toronto. The research was published in the journal Science on St. Patrick's Day (Johnson's birthday anniversary), with the official publication set March 18 (Ness' birthday anniversary).
The clover or shamrock symbolizes St. Patrick's Day, but this herbivore just considers it lunch. This image of a yellow-striped armyworm moth, Spodoptera ornithogalli, was taken in Louisiana. (Photo courtesy of Marc Johnson, University of Toronto)
Clover Root Curculio Found in Several Klamath Basin Alfalfa Fields
The warm weather this week is hopefully the best remedy for jump-starting many alfalfa fields damaged by frost and hail the last couple of weeks. If you have fields with frost damage that are not improving, you might dig some alfalfa plants and look at the roots. Recently we have multiple...