Lizards sneaking into your home this summer? Keep them out with simple yet effective natural remedies like peppermint oil, garlic, eggshells, and DIY repellents. Follow this step-by-step guide to seal ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Spring can be a busy time in our gardens. The emerging green shoots and blooming bulbs always lift the spirits, and there's ...

UC Master Gardeners of Ventura County can help you practice Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, an approach to controlling ...

Gardenias, ixoras, azaleas and other acid-loving plants should get a special fertilizer containing essential elements for acid-loving plants. If you didn’t fertilize your citrus trees in January or ...

Florida orange production has fallen by some 90% in the past two decades in large part due to citrus greening, but growers ...

Among those who lost their jobs is Jonah Ulmer, a national taxonomist and the federal government’s foremost authority on ...

Insects’ aversion to worm castings is demonstrated when they are spread over ant nests, causing the ants to remove themselves ...

USDA pest experts were abruptly fired last month — swept up in the Trump administration’s frenzied and turbulent efforts to ...

On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, the 25% tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on imports from Mexico and Canada went into ...

A statewide citrus quarantine was issued recently for Mississippi after one of the most serious citrus plant diseases in the ...

Among its victims: hydrangea, peppers, eggplant, mango, citrus, grapes, blueberries and strawberries. As chilli thrips ...