Did you know that most gardens host at least a few aphids? On healthy plants, these common insects don't cause much harm, and beneficial insects, including ladybugs, help reduce their numbers. Aphids ...
Are your garden plants stunted, shriveled, yellowing, or curling at the leaves, despite your best efforts to keep them alive? Check the undersides of the leaves, and you might find the culprit: large ...
Q. I recently found pink-colored pouches on a staghorn sumac bush in our garden. There are lots of them and they are attached to the bottom of the leaves. What are they? — Jana, Parksville A. Staghorn ...
University of Georgia Woolly aphids on a silver maple leaf. The bugs are black, but secrete a fluffy, white wax to help them stay on the tree. They do little harm overall. Silver maple and other shade ...
Some of the leaves on my serviceberry and hawthorn have an ugly black residue on them. When I looked more closely at the trees, I noticed some things that looked like little cotton balls here and ...
The 50 shades of green in spring gardens trigger a biological chain reaction. It begins with the flush of new vegetative growth, which plants produce as the weather warms. The succulent shoots attract ...
Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...
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4 reasons why your houseplant leaves have holes in them, even if you don't see pests
Key Points Fungal diseases may lead to holes, usually after an initial discoloration of leaf tissue.Spider mites, aphids, and ...
A recent thorough cleaning of the deck, patio and concrete areas removed a patina of accumulated dirt. A few weeks later, they are again covered with a brown sticky sap. The overhanging walnut tree ...
When the needles began to fall like rain earlier in the summer, and piled up in windrows on sidewalks and roadways, every one wondered why that was happening. Spruce needles only last a few years, so ...
What it means: Which would you rather have in your vegetable garden: aphids and cabbage worms or the pesticide endosulfan, which can cause convulsions, nausea, brain damage and death? For the United ...
Soybean aphids can be seen on the underside of a soybean leaf. Photo courtesy of OSU Extension, Hardin County HARDIN COUNTY – You know how at the end of the horror movie there’s always some hint that ...
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