I have noticed chewed and discolored leaves on my shrubs but I don’t find any bugs. What could be causing this damage? It could be that you are not looking at the right time or the right place. Or the ...
What is that bug? Not an easy question with 1 million insects to choose from. Fortunately, only 10,000 species are pests. Entomologists divide insects into 30 categories called orders. You may be ...
Identifying which creatures are responsible for eating the valuable fruit, vegetables salads or herbs which you have lovingly tended to all summer long, can be a real challenge. Harrod Horticultural ...
Insects that eat leaves create different kinds of damage. While you will not always see the bug that's doing the eating, you will almost certainly notice the destruction. Here's how to identify the ...
CORVALLIS – You look around the garden and see aphids suck the life out of your rose buds, flea beetles chomp on the cauliflower and cabbage butterflies lay eggs that will turn into voracious ...
June is a prime time for pests to go after your budding vegetable garden. The Sonoma County Master Gardeners are holding a free workshop June 7 with ways to identify, prevent, and manage common garden ...
But Jervis, Director of Horticulture at Tulsa Garden Center Barry Fugatt and Doug Worley, owner of Worley's Greenhouse and Nursery, share some of the common garden pests to keep an eye out for this ...
Before you start looking for signs of spring in the garden, look around for trouble: insect eggs. “A number of problem insects overwinter as eggs on trees and shrubs,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant ...
Zinnias are regularly considered one of the easiest flowers to grow, but it may not seem that way if every morning you wake up to find more and more damage to your zinnia plants. With no perpetrators ...