What are Japanese beetles? As name implies Japanese beetles, Popillia japonica are native to Japan but in the United States,…
Fleas are one of the medically important pests of both animals and humans as they are capable of transmitting different…
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…
Flea beetles are very small insects but they can cause a very serious damage to many vegetable crops including radish.…
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…