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What's Bugging My Peppers? As a northern gardener, you won't have too many problems with insects bothering okra, peppers, and eggplant. Southern gardeners will have more problems. Here's a rundown of the most common pests and what can be done for them. |
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Insect Pests of Tomatoes Here's some basic information on several widespread pests that, like you, hanker for tomatoes. |
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Cucumber Beetle They are more dangerous to their cucumber family hosts than many pests because they transmit deadly diseases -- mosaic and bacterial wilts. |
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Scale Different species of scale insects attack various kinds of fruits in all parts of the country. |
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The "Do-Good" Bugs A guide to choosing and using beneficial insects, mites and nematodes... |
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Colorado Potato Beetle If you see in your garden a small yellow beetle with black stripes over its wings and black spots just behind its head, say hello to the Colorado potato beetle. Potatoes are its first love, but this beetle will eagerly consume leaves of potato relatives eggplant, ground cherry, peppers, tomato, and tomatillo. |
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Growing Roses the Natural Way 14 friendly remedies for rose pests and diseases |
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Whiteflies Found throughout the United States. These tiny, insects feed in large numbers on leaf undersides of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and other plants by sucking out plant juices. |
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Corn Diseases, Insects, and Pests Most of the trouble gardeners have with corn is easily controlled. |
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The Day the Ladybugs Came When a blessing becomes a nusiance: lady beetles may cause inconvenience but will do no actual harm when clustered in or on houses. |
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Summer's Bad Guys A guide to some of the most common garden pests and their controls... |
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Leafminer Many different insects are knows as leafminers, but all share the habit of tunneling between the upper and lower layers of leaves, and creating a visible, random trails or mines in the process. |
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Beetle Mania Japanese beetles get sick on geraniums... |
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Healthy Home Orchards Use basic pest control techniques to harvest a healthy fruit crop. |
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Cabbage Looper This catepillar can harm your plants. How can you control it? |
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Worker bees 'chemically castrated' through diet The role of the phytochemical p-coumaric acid in determining whether female honey bee larvae develop into queens or workers has been discovered unexpectedly by researchers in the US. |
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How to Deal With Moths That Munch What attracts these pesky bugs and how to keep them from destroying your sweaters |
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Picking, Squashing, Fetching... They are three good ways to entice children into the garden. |
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What's Bugging Your Lawn? Even if your lawn is almost weed-free, it can suffer from problems that affect both its appearance and its health. From grubs to dogs, here's what to do about them. |
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Asparagus April marks the beginning of the peak season for asparagus. Here's how to pick the best and a couple of recipes to enjoy them in. |
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Stalking the Mother Asparagus Asparagus season starts in January and February in warmer areas and will continue into spring across the country, but a new technique from Taiwan can extend the asparagus-harvesting season wherever you live... |
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