Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! What a beautiful summer. We have definitely experienced some hot and humid days, but timely rains have kept our farm crops and vegetable gardens growing ...

My first encounter with old-fashioned potato beetles took place very early in my career. This was way before there was such a thing as the internet. A client brought in an elongated, dark gray beetle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorado potato beetles feasting on green leaves - Bukhta Yurii/Shutterstock Have you noticed oblong, orange eggs congregating on ...

Q: I had a problem with the Colorado potato beetle this year. This was my first year at this location where the previous owner built this potato garden. I used Sevin twice, but the beetles still came ...

While heat remains strongest driver of Colorado potato beetle abundance, other factors also play key roles in predicting outbreaks.

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Q: Could you please help me out? What is the name of the beautiful bush in the attached photo? Is there a good time of year to transplant a portion of it? — Diana N. A: The shrub is a Weigela, most ...

Gotta love that black and gold -- NOT. Though this black-and-yellow bug is cute, it can cause lots of damage. Called such creative names as 10-striped spearman, 10-lined potato beetle or simply a ...

The Colorado potato beetle is a notorious pest--and a kind of unstoppable genius. The modern pesticide era began in the 1860s when Midwest farmers started killing these beetles by spraying them with a ...

TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh has urged people to keep an eye out for Colorado beetles, which pose a “savage” threat to the British potato industry. The insects and their larvae feed on the foliage of ...

PANAMA CITY — The appetite of a tiny beetle might be Florida’s best defense against the fast growing, invasive air potato vine. “Ten beetles is all they need, assuming you get some females,” Kristen ...

New research shows that pesticides alter how Colorado potato beetles manage their DNA. These epigenetic changes were passed down two generations suggesting that rapid resistance to pesticides may not ...