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ArticleHow to Handle Common Houseplant Pests
Outdoors, pest populations are kept in check by rain and diseases and by birds, beneficial insects, and other predators; indoors, however, plant pests can proliferate very quickly with nothing to…
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How-ToEriophyid Mites: What They Are and How to Control Them in the Home Garden
If you’ve ever battled rose rosette disease or encountered odd leaf deformities, you should care about eriophyid mites. I find the juxtaposition of their incredibly small size with the bizarre,…
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How-ToProtecting Your Garden from Hungry Critters
Whether you dwell in the city, suburbs, or countryside, critters are likely to adore the fruits of your garden labor. While small animals such as gophers, rats, mice, squirrels, and…
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Collection12 Common Garden Pests in the United States and How to Control Them
Most insects raise no concern when spotted in the garden. In fact, many are welcome guests that we invite with an array of plants they love to visit. But we…
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How-ToPest Control for Northern California: Rose Slugs
Although they resemble miniature slugs, rose slugs are not true slugs at all. They’re the larval stage of the European sawfly (Endelomyia aethiops), a small, rather innocent-looking flying insect. European…
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VideoGetting Control of Insects, Weeds, and Diseases (Webinar)
Insect pests, out-of-control diseases, and unrelenting weeds—these are the things that keep gardeners up at night. Most of us know that reaching for a spray bottle of toxic chemicals isn’t…
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How-ToPest Alert: Spotted Lanternfly
It’s big, it’s bad, and it could well be headed your way, if it’s not there already. First identified in the United States in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 2014, spotted…
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ArticleHow to Use Organic Controls to Battle Garden Pests
As we learn more about the ecological impacts of human actions, it seems only natural that more and more gardeners are seeking out environmentally friendly methods of pest control. One…
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How-ToCastor Bean (Ricinus communis)
Although castor bean is a gorgeous, showy plant in the garden, the seeds are poisonous. So why would one want to grow it? Read on to find out...
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How-ToPest Control—Elizabethan Style
In the days before chemicals, the gardener had to come up with more creative solutions.
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