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Citrus Tree Care – Fertilizing Citrus Trees and Other Questions Answered by Dr. Ashraf El-Kereamy

October 14, 2019 By Dan Willey Leave a Comment

In the following video on citrus tree care, I visited Dr. Ashraf El-Kereamy to get answers to reader questions on various topics including fertilizing citrus trees, watering citrus trees, potting citrus trees, transplanting citrus trees, pruning citrus trees, and citrus disease. Ashraf (email: ashrafe@ucr.edu) is a Cooperative Extension Citrus Specialist and faculty member at the Department of Botany and Plant Science, at the University of California Riverside.

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Citrus Pests – Your Questions Answered by Dr. Monique Rivera

September 28, 2019 By Dan Willey Leave a Comment

In the following video on citrus pests, I visited Dr. Monique Rivera, a University of California entomologist to get answers to reader and viewer questions on citrus pests including Asian citrus psyllids and Argentine ants. Our discussion included both Asian citrus psyllid treatment to reduce the spread of HLB and also ant control for citrus trees. We discussed the Argentine ant in California and how to kill ants with a liquid ant bait. We also discussed a case of liquid ant bait not working and how to use liquid ant bait more effectively.

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Asian Citrus Psyllids and Huanglongbing – Your questions answered by Victoria Hornbaker and the CDFA

September 21, 2019 By Dan Willey Leave a Comment

In the following video, I visited the Plant Pest Diagnostics Center in Sacramento, California to get answers to reader and viewer questions on Asian citrus psyllids and huanglongbing disease (also sometimes called HLB, citrus greening disease, and yellow dragon disease). The questions were answered by Victoria Hornbaker and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). Victoria is the director of the citrus program at the CDFA.

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Why does Huanglongbing (Citrus Greening) Spread so Rapidly? Answered by Dr. Neil McRoberts

September 14, 2019 By Dan Willey Leave a Comment

I recently visited the University of California, Davis in response to a reader's question about the rapid spread of huanglongbing disease (also know as citrus greening, HLB, or yellow dragon disease). Plant disease epidemiologist Dr. Neil McRoberts, a member of faculty at the plant pathology department at UC Davis, explains in the below video how the interaction between Asian citrus psyllids, liberibacter, and citrus trees causes this deadly citrus disease to spread so rapidly .

Please see below for resources related to huanglongbing and Asian citrus psyllids.