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MacCubbin gives Florida gardening advice about crape myrtles, summer vegetables, lemon trees, tomato plants, indoor palms and lawn care ...
CHICAGO — WGN’s “Plant Daddy” Tim Joyce is back to share some weekend gardening tips, including how to manage mosquitoes around your garden, how to eliminate pesky boxwood psyllids and ...
A: It sounds like boxwood psyllids, small sap sucking insects, are causing the symptoms you described. These insects tend to feed on new growth, and the cupping or curling of leaves near the shoot ...
Q • I started seeing a few dark green circles and arcs in my tall fescue lawn. Is that a problem, and if so, what should I do about it?
One Texas potato field west of Bushland hosts three separate studies, all aimed at helping growers nationwide, even internationally, understand the habits and controls of the potato psyllid. The ...
Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares his monthly gardening to-do list for the region ...
As spring rolls around, we need to put more effort into our gardens. Controlling weeds and bugs now is a great way to protect your lawn.
USDA pest experts were abruptly fired last month — swept up in the Trump administration’s frenzied and turbulent efforts to drastically shrink the federal workforce.
Clarence profiles spectacular lilly pillies with tasty berries, pretty flowers and beautiful evergreen foliage.
Dead psyllids that could no longer feed on the genetically modified citrus trees in the lab. It's been genetically altered to create a protein that forms holes in the gut of a psyllid.
University of Florida scientists are perfecting an approach that involves inserting a gene into a citrus tree to produces a protein that can kill baby Asian citrus psyllids, the bugs that transmit ...