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  1. Native Shrubs: Creating Living Landscapes for Birds, Butterflies, Bees, and Other Beneficials

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5813

    primarily as food for juvenile bees. Specialist Bees: About a third of all bee species are pollen ... larval host for about 200 species of butterflies and moths, including the red-spotted purple and the ... ducks and other waterfowl when grown along pond edges. Buttonbush is a larval host plant for about two ...

  2. STEAM students enjoy a day at South Centers

    https://southcenters.osu.edu/steam-students-enjoy-day-south-centers

    School District visited The Ohio State University South Centers in May to learn more about facility’s ... learn more about aquaponics, aquaculture, and specialty crops. It was also an emotional one for K-4 ... Harker to learn about how crops like lettuce can grow on top of the water in an aquaponics system. He ...

  3. Strategies for Successful Health

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/SS-125

    SNAP-Ed Regional Program Specialist, Family and Consumer Sciences, Oh In the 1950s, the U.S. Department of ... groups turned into the Basic 4 about 40 years ago. It next became a food guide pyramid based on five ... choices. It gives a visual cure, using a place setting for a meal. This encourages people to think about ...

  4. Activities

    https://ansci.osu.edu/programs/buckeye-dairy-club/activities

    only are milkshakes and cheese sandwiches sold in this building, but FSR-goers can learn about the ... bond with some cows, as well as, get out and about with your peers and meet new people during this ... four to five companies within the dairy industry to join us. This is a fantastic opportunity for dairy ...

  5. OSU Soil Organic Matter Calculator

    https://southcenters.osu.edu/soil-water-bioenergy/extention/som-soil-organic-matter-calculator

    response to cropping pattern, tillage, manure application, erosion, cover crops and stover removal. (Click ...

  6. Food Preservation Five

    https://darke.osu.edu/news/food-preservation-five

    Are you interested in learning about food preservation? Join us for these free webinars hosted by ...

  7. Bumble Bees in Ohio: Natural History and Identification of Common Species

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-84

    bumble bees, with about a dozen species seen in Ohio. These bees play an important role as pollinators of ... secretes wax to create comb and then lays about a dozen eggs. She mated with a drone last fall, and has ... About two weeks later, the larvae pupate, then emerge in about another two weeks as adult workers. ...

  8. Best Practices for Effective and Efficient Pesticide Application

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/fabe-532

    requires a slightly different approach to the application of pesticides, some general principles apply to ... Only the most critical issues related to application of pesticides are discussed in this publication. ... plays a role in achieving success in pesticide application, nozzles play the most significant role. ...

  9. Summer Patch on Turfgrass

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-3082

    typically about 1 inch in diameter but often coalesce. On lower cut turfgrass, such as that found on golf ... mowing turfgrass below recommended heights. Fungicides. Timely preventive fungicide applications may be ... fungicides are labeled for use on summer patch. Timing of the first application is recommended when soil ...

  10. Monitoring and Managing Spotted wing Drosophila in Fruit Crops

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-86

    countries via overseas trade of infested fruit. The first U.S. detection occurred in Hawaii in 1980, and in ... 2008, it was found in the continental U.S. in California. This pest has since spread rapidly to all ... SWD in an area, which in turn allows for better planning of insecticide applications. The action ...

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