A Symposium entitled “Entomopathogenic Nematodes and Multitrophic interactions in the Rhizosphere” has been organized by Raquel Campos-Herrera, Claudia Dolinski and…
Incidence of Kudzu bugs on Chinese long beans For the last couple of years, I have been growing Chinese long…
Why entomopathoegnic Heterorhabditis indica nematodes should be used to kill small hive beetles? They are not harmful to honeybees and…
Honeybees: Honeybees are the insects that are members of the genus Aphis belonging to an insect order, Hymenoptera, family, Aphidae and class,…
In my last blog post, I demonstrated the cutworms were susceptible to beneficial entomopathogenic Steinernema carpocapsae nematodes. These results are…
Yesterday, we harvested fresh raspberries (see photo below) from the raspberry plants that are naturally growing at the borderline of…
Last Monday, I read an article about eastern tent caterpillars on the website of Crossville Chronicle (http://crossville-chronicle.com/features/x1221402699/PLATEAU-GARDENING-Reader-inquires-about-Eastern-tent-caterpillars) and thought that I…
Yesterday (Saturday May 12, 2012), I found a bunch of Colorado potato beetle grubs (also called as larvae) were feeding on…
Sod webworms: One of the most damaging pests of turfgrass foliage How to identify Sod webworms? Full grown larvae/caterpillars of…
How many nematodes should be applied? For the successful control most of the soil dwelling insect pests, the optimal rate…