Agriculture & Food: Pest Control Articles
"YELLOW JACKETS! Where did they all come from?"
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This has been a common question lately. Late summer always brings more yellow jacket problems. If you have worked in the yard, eaten outside or made a trip to recycling center, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Let’s look at some facts about that troublesome, but also beneficial yellow jacket.The yellow jacket worker is about 1⁄2
Integrated Pest Management Class
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Making Use of Beneficial Insects for Crop Pest Management & Pollination Wednesday, July 30, 9:00-3:00pmLocation: CEFS, Goldsboro, NCWorkshop Registration: $20 (Includes lunch)** Pre-registration recommended - limited seating ** Pesticide Credits: 5.0 hours: N O D X This workshop will include
Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
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There are no magic fixes to tick problems but there are measures (both chemical and non-chemical) that you can use to reduce tick infestations around your property and to protect yourself and your family.PetsPets that spend all or part of their time outdoors need to be protected for their own safety and also so that they don't serve as a local reservoir for ticks. There are already enough potential sources out there
Mosquito Protection and Control
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Everyone is outside more at this time of year. You may be working or playing, but chances are you are probably spending a lot more time outdoors lately. There is a risk of mosquito bites every time you work outside or in the woods. In addition to being uncomfortable, mosquito insect bites can cause illnesses, which include several types of encephalitis and West
05/03/08 Carpenter Bees
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Carpenter bees are large, black and yellow bees frequently seen in spring hovering around the eaves of a house or the underside of a deck or porch rail. They are most often mistaken for bumble bees, but differ in that they have a black shiny tail section. The carpenter bee is so called because of its habit of excavating tunnels in wood
Pesky Pests in the Pantry
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A sure way to ruin an appetite and dampen the enthusiasm of any cook is to open a box or bag from the pantry and find insects. A number of pests find their way into items stored in the kitchen or pantry shelves, and it is often difficult to tell when the item became infested. Just
Gardening Tips: Controlling Fireblight in Apples and Pears
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Gardening Tips: Controlling Fireblight in Apples and PearsSome insect and disease problems can be easily solved by identifying the problem and then spraying with the appropriate insecticide or fungicide. Other times these problems do not have a silver bullet chemical cure that will solve them, and homeowners must use other methods to control the problem. Fireblight is one such example. Fireblight is a bacterial disease that infects primarily apple and pear trees.
Pesky Pests in the Pantry
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A sure way to ruin an appetite and dampen the enthusiasm of any cook is to open a box or bag from the pantry and find insects. A number of pests find their way into items stored in the kitchen or pantry shelves, and it is often difficult to tell when the item became infested. Just
Gardening Tips: Controlling Azalea Lace bug and Boxwood Leafminer
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Gardening Tips: Controlling Azalea Lace bug and Boxwood Leafminer Now that the threat of frost is behind us, it is time to inspect our landscapes for two of our most common landscape insects, which happen to damage two of our most common landscape shrubs. I am referring to Azalea lace bug and Boxwood leafminer. Azalea lace bug is a small insect that feeds on the bottom of leaves by piercing through the leaf
Gardening Tips: Controlling Eastern Tent Caterpillars
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Gardening Tips: Controlling Eastern Tent Caterpillars This past week I noticed one of the annual signs that spring has arrived- Eastern tent caterpillars. Eastern tent caterpillars are the insects you see this time of year forming silk webbings on cherry, apple, and crabapple trees, as well as some others. The caterpillars emerge from eggs laid the previous year, and spin a silk webbing in the crotches of tree branches (where the branch meets the