Posts Tagged: Larry Godfrey

Rice pest problems were minimal in 2012

Rice insects and diseases were minimal or easy to control this year, reported Larry Godfrey, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Entomology at UC Davis, at a rice field day in Biggs, Calif., according to an article in Western Farm Press.

Godfrey reached that conclusion even though he trapped 10 times more rice water weevils in his control trials this season than in 2011, the article said.

Tadpole shrimp populations also were high this season and damage was evident. Godfrey believes they were excessive due to the winter dry period. It took longer for growers to flood fields due to the dry spring soil conditions and that contributed to the higher shrimp population.

Godfrey is testing insecticides Coragen and Belay to control these pests. Coragen is several years from registration. Belay is entangled in a honey bee kill issue so the state and federal governments are asking for more testing.

Godfrey was a presenter at a recent rice field day at the California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation, Inc., Rice Experiment Station. World demand for rice, the article said, will only grow more voracious.

Why Flies Are Fantastic

You want to know why flies are fantastic?They are, you know. Just ask Martin Hauser of the Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of...

Tachinid fly (Peleteria species) on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tachinid fly (Peleteria species) on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

BYOB Doesn't Mean What You Think

BYOB doesn't mean what you think it does. Ask any entomology student and it means "Bring Your Own Bug." And that's exactly what the UC Davis...

Bugs R Us

UC DAVIS Department of Entomology faculty member Larry Godfrey (right) answers questions about bugs. Behind him are Meredith Cenzer and Matan Shelomi. (Photo of Good Day Sacramento TV screen by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

About That Insect...

TV ANCHOR Mark Mathias (left) quizzes Ralph Washington (right) about Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Next to him is Andrew Merwin. (Photo of Good Day Sacramento TV screen by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Distinguished Service, Distinguished Awards

Excellent work!We're glad to see that three noted entomologists at the University of California, Davis, received distinguished awards in their...

The Answers

Okay, what are the answers? In a prior blog, we listed several questions asked at the Linnaean Games, a...

Pondering a Question

PONDERING A QUESTION are (from left) the UC Riverside team of Jennifer Henke, Casey Butler, Jason Mottern and Rebeccah Waterworth. UC Riverside won the Linnaean Games. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Yes!

WE WON!--Casey Butler exults as he breaks the dead heat, giving UC Riverside the win in the 2008 Linnaean Games. From left are Jennifer Henke, Casey Butler, Jason Mottern and Rebeccah Waterworth at the moment they realized they'd won. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Team

UC DAVIS TEAM--Pondering a question are (from left) Hillary Thomas, Andrew Pedersen, Dominic Reisig and Michael Branstetter. Pederson and Reisig study with their major professor Larry Godfrey, who was on the University of Kentucky championship team in 1983 that won the second annual Linnean Games. Thomas' major professor is Frank Zalom and Branstetter's major professor is Phil Ward. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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