Tag Archives: pests

4 Ways to Keep Cats Out of the Garden

May 13, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

A neighborhood cat keeps walking through my garden and I don’t want him to. What can I do?

All About Identifying and Fighting Scale Insects

April 22, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

What can you tell me about scale insects?

All About Opossums in the Yard and Garden

April 16, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

I saw an opossum in my garden. What can you tell me about opossums?

How to Identify and Control Cutworms

April 9, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Cutworms are the larvae—or caterpillars—of a number of different night-flying moth species. Living up to their name, these pesky larvae cut down young plants at the soil surface or below when they feed. Although they do not cause damage once …

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Winter Moth Identification and Control

December 3, 2012 | Maria Woodie | 0

What is winter moth and what can I do about it?

New Study Pinpoints Lyme Disease Risk Areas

April 1, 2012 | Dorian Winslow | 2

If you live in a light green area of this map, you probably don’t need to read further. However, if you live in or visit the yellow or red areas, read on. The map came out of a study on …

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Solarizing Soil

September 20, 2011 | Meghan Shinn | 5

We want to clear an area of lawn and replace it with a vegetable garden. I’ve heard of “solarizing”—can you tell me if this would be the best way to go and can we do it over the winter so we’ll be ready to plant in spring?

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Book Review: Good Bug Bad Bug (2nd Ed.)

September 4, 2011 | Kylee Baumle | 0

Good Bug Bad Bug: Who’s Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically by Jessica Walliser 95 pages St. Lynn’s Press, 2nd Edition, Updated, 2011 List price: $17.95 The fact that this book is in its Second Edition …

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Fighting Spider Mites

August 30, 2011 | Meghan Shinn | 8

Read up on signs of spider mites and how to get rid of them.

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Book Review: Wicked Bugs

July 20, 2011 | Kylee Baumle | 0

Wicked Bugs The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart 288 pages Algonquin Books, 2011 List Price: $18.95 In the spirit of the wildly successful Wicked Plants, author Amy Stewart has done it again. This …

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Year of the Mosquito

June 13, 2011 | Meghan Shinn | 12

The spring and early summer of 2011 have seen record-setting floods in the Mississippi River basin and high rainfall amounts in much of the United States. Joseph Conlon, technical advisor for the American Mosquito Control Association, predicts “a bumper crop” …

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