Posts Tagged: noxious

Mesgaran creates new tool: Google Weed View

AI enables low-cost tracking of invasive johnsongrass To manage johnsongrass, a noxious weed that crowds out cotton and sickens horses, farmers have tried herbicides, burning and hand-pulling. Now, researchers in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences have developed a more high-tech weapon...

Foraging on Capeweed

Honey bees and native bees love capeweed, Arctotheca calendula, also called South African capeweed, cape dandelion and cape marigold or cape gold. It's an invasive plant originating from the Cape Province in South Africa (Here's what the California Invasive Council says about...

Native bees foraging on capeweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Native bees foraging on capeweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Perennial Pepperweed, Telar and Organic Matter?

A few months ago Rob Wilson wrote an excellent blog highlighting perennial pepperweed patches he was seeing in the Klamath Basin. It is a terrible noxious weed, which is found throughout much of the state, from sea level up to 8,000 ft. in the Sierras. Where I live in the Honey Lake Valley,...

Highlighting two uncommon noxious weeds

From the Lassen county Farm Advisor's Update newsletter (Aug. 2020)   Highlighting Two Uncommon Noxious Weeds Let's keep them uncommon! There are two species of noxious weeds I want to bring to your attention, as they are not that common in our area: rush skeleton weed (Chondrilla juncea)...

Cruel vine

From the Topics in the Subtropics blog :: March 4, 2020 * * * * * * So I've gotten a few calls lately about this vine with a big green pod that is growing in lemon trees. What is done with it and how do you get rid of it? Araujia sericifera, cruel vine, moth plant, bladderflower is an...

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