UC Master Gardeners - Sutter Yuba
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The UCCE Master Gardeners of Sutter-Yuba Counties welcome you!
Who are we?
UCCE Master Gardeners are trained representatives of the University of California Cooperative Extension, assisting the gardening community of Sutter and Yuba Counties by providing research-based home gardening information.*
*To learn more, visit the statewide UC Master Gardener Program and the California Garden Web.
Ask us! We are here to help if you have gardening questions, want to have us identify a plant or animal for you, or just want to know more about us. Complete our intake form here to get your questions answered.
UC ANR Blogs
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Santa and the Monarch
Santa Claus and the monarch butterfly share a commonality. Both are icons, easily recognizable. One may become extinct. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Dec. 10 its plans to add the monarch butterfly to its list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. If enacted, this...
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2024: Revisiting 'The 13 Bugs of Christmas'
Back in 2010, UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (1944-2022) of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and yours truly, department communications specialist, wondered why no insects appear in "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Zero....
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Insect 'Infomercials' You Won't Want to MIss
If you have some free time during the holidays--free time, what's that?--and you're interested in insects, you'll want to watch a series of UC Davis insect "infomercials." As a class assignment, 58 students in a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology class, ENT 010 (“The...
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Suds for a Bug, or a Pitcher of Beer for a Butterfly
Suds for a bug? A bug for some suds? The annual “Beer for a Butterfly” contest, launched in 1972 by butterfly guru Art Shapiro, now a UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus, gets underway Jan. 1. The first person to find the first live cabbage white butterfly, Pieris...
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