Category: Agriculture

What’s in Season Now?


April 6, 2015

April showers bring May flowers--and your Fresh from Florida April Shopping List! Shelley Swenson is your local Family & Consumer Science Extension Agent III, UF/IFAS Wakulla County. READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Agriculture, Community, Cooking, Extension, Families & Consumers, Family And Consumer Sciences, Farming, Florida, Food, Food And Nutrition, Fresh, Fresh From Florida, Fruits, General Information, Grow, Growing, Local, Locally Grown, Produce, Shelley Swenson, Sustainable Living, Vegetables, Wakulla, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

New on Featured Creatures! An encyrtid parasitoid


March 28, 2015

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: Anagyrus pseudococci (Fig. 1) is a well-known encyrtid parasitoid capable of developing on a variety of mealybug species ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease
Tags: Beneficials, Featured Creatures, Mealybugs, Pest Alert

New on Featured Creatures! The sting nematode


March 27, 2015

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: The common name sting nematode is generally applied to nematodes in the genus Belonolaimus, particularly Belonolaimus longicaudatus ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Turf
Tags: Featured Creatures, Nematodes, Pest Alert

UF OneWorld Event Challenges Attendees to Consider the World in 2050


March 24, 2015

By Clare Condon By 2050, it is estimated that there will be 9.6 billion people on planet Earth. How will we sustain all of those people? How will we prevent starvation, thirst, disease, and war? How will we conserve natural resources on such ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Events, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Community Outreach, Conservation, Disease, Event, Lecture, Population Growth

Pollen and Allergy Season: The Price We Pay for Living in a Lush Landscape


March 24, 2015

It’s that time of year again, that time when your car changes color like a chameleon in order to mimic the surrounding landscape. Anything that stands still long enough will become coated with a light green to yellow dust. What is this dust ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Allergies, Dust, General Gardening, Native Plants, Panhandle Gardening, Pollen, Pollinators, Reproduction, Spring 2015, Trees

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