Topics in Subtropics

Bee Hotels and Gardens Applications and Limitations The model of a Bee Hotel' has been a useful tool for surveying insects in research studies for decades.

Rain is wonderful stuff. If it comes and washes the accumulated salts of the last several years out of the root zones of citrus and avocado, that's a good thing.

Soil moisture sensor selection. An extensive range of soil moisture sensors/probes have already been commercialized and are available to use in avocado and other orchards.

We recently compiled the last year's activities in the Ventura and Santa Barbara offices of UC ANR, check it out: https://ucanr.edu/sites/ucceventura/files/402039.pdf https://cesantabarbara.ucanr.

Each year the California Avocado Commission partners with Land IQ to produce a Statewide Avocado Acreage and Condition Analysis report utilizing digital satellite imagery, aerial photography and analytical tools to survey California avocado groves.