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Landscape plants: Viburnum leaf beetle (VLB) damage is showing up more often each year in Dane County and surrounding areas.
I am getting mixed recommendations on the use of pesticides in my garden when I ask gardening friends and local garden center staff. Can you provide some direction on how to use them properly.
It was to control viburnum leaf beetle, which would have killed all of my arrowwood viburnums. I should have treated for azalea sawfly, which ended up killing all of my Northern Lights azaleas.
I wandered happily along the trail last week spotting the colors of the forest in spring: the red columbine, the lavender wild geranium, the lacy maple-leaf viburnum, the tiny daisies of the ...
Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that ...
After a week away, a gardener returned to find their once-healthy lilies ravaged by the notorious Lily Leaf Beetle, prompting ...
Observe the intricate, instinct-driven behavior of the Amegao beetle as she constructs a leaf cradle for her larvae, ensuring their protection, moisture, and food. More for You.
One of these was going to be my population of young beech trees. But, this spring, many of the beech leaves have been a ...
Why rare beetles are being smuggled to Japan at an alarming rate. Big-horned rhinoceros beetles, taken from Bolivia, are ending up in Japan's illegal pet trade—and in beetle wrestling matches.
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The discovery of Mediterranean oak borers in Novato has prompted an alert by the county agriculture department.