{"id":3517,"date":"2022-04-15T08:27:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T08:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2022-04-15T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T08:27:58","slug":"april-horticultural-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/2022\/04\/15\/april-horticultural-updates-2\/","title":{"rendered":"April Horticultural Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Margaret Bayne, OSU Extension Service Staff-retired, OSU Master<\/strong> Gardener<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Western Bumblebee Photo: Stephen Ausmus, Agriculture Research Service, USDA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The ABCs of plants for Bees!<\/strong> (Abi Saeed, Gardenprofessors.com) https:\/\/bit.ly\/3tiYmyx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surfing the \u201cgreen wave.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>Is it spring yet where you are? How can you tell?<\/em> (Pam Knox, Gardenprofessors.org) https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wbT9dy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Introduction to growing under lights.<\/strong> (By Miri Talabac, UMD)<\/em> https:\/\/bit.ly\/3qaAnzo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VIDEOS <\/strong>from NPIC (National Pesticide Information Center, OSU)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bacillus thuringiensis:\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Ji4EDT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spinosad:<\/strong>\u00a0 https:\/\/bit.ly\/3CW6mIY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does it mean when food is organic?:\u00a0 <\/strong>https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ivh2oB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giant Asian Hornet, Oregon Department of Agriculture<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

How to make irresistible traps for Asian giant hornets using sex<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cTraps placed near nests in China attracted thousands of males.\u201d<\/em> (Erin Garcia de Jes\u00fas<\/a>, Sciencenews.org) https:\/\/bit.ly\/3MYPndF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Insects on a Plane: How Eusocial Ants, Bees, and Wasps Deal With Viruses.<\/strong> (Melissa Mayer, entomologytoday.org) https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Jhfhqt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mosquito, National Pesticide Information Center, OSU<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mosquitoes may be attracted to certain colours.<\/strong> (Cassandra Edmunds, theconversation.com) https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wdbaIo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hidden Diversity: When One Wasp Species is Actually 16<\/strong>. (Entomology today) https:\/\/bit.ly\/3th6teR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Margaret Bayne, OSU Extension Service Staff-retired, OSU Master Gardener The ABCs of plants for Bees! (Abi Saeed, Gardenprofessors.com) https:\/\/bit.ly\/3tiYmyx Surfing the \u201cgreen wave.\u201d\u00a0 Is it spring yet where you are? How can you tell? (Pam Knox, Gardenprofessors.org) https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wbT9dy An Introduction to growing under lights. (By Miri Talabac, UMD) https:\/\/bit.ly\/3qaAnzo VIDEOS from NPIC (National Pesticide… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1180745],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horticulture-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgmetro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}