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New UC Web site helps farmers with business and marketingUniversity of California Cooperative Extension has launched a new Web site to help new and established small- to medium-scale farmers of fresh products with the business and marketing aspects of their operations. UC publishes information for managing bats, spiders in urban settings Just in time for Halloween, the University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program has released two new publications offering advice on keeping bats and spiders from invading homes and bothering people. Research funding supports search for better biofuels The October-December 2009 issue of UC’s California Agriculture journal includes articles on the promise of biofuel research, as well as the challenge of insuring that food security and natural lands are not adversely affected by a vast expansion of new biofuel crop acreage
Human odor that lures mosquitoes identifiedScientists at UC Davis have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases. What insect studies tell us about human lifespan A UC Davis entomologist will share his insights into human lifespan, aging and death gleaned from insect studies - including research on Mediterranean fruit flies in Hawaii, Mexico and Greece and on butterflies in Uganda - during a Webcast Oct. 21.
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