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Jose Ortiz is an agricultural entomologist with a university cooperative extension service, where he has worked for 20 years. He examines and identifies insect pests found on regional crops, commercial orchards, and landscape plantings, providing farm growers, nursery workers, and residential gardeners with practical management recommendations. Over the course of his career, he has conducted systematic insect population surveillance across several rural counties, tracked seasonal pest cycles, and published extension pest control bulletins for local producers. Ortiz received a BS in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and took an MS in Entomology.

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