Dear Dr. Dirt: Every July I get cicada killer wasps in my yard. They dig up huge mounds of dirt in my grass, which is unsightly. Nothing seems to kill the wasps. They burrow back under ground in ...

More drama is brewing for Lindsay Lohan. The troubled starlet is being sued by a St. Petersburg, Fla., chemist for stealing the formula for her sunless tanning spray. Jennifer Sunday filed the lawsuit ...

Lindsay Lohan may be launching her own spray-tan line this month, but that hasn’t stopped her from using other brands. The out-of-work actress has employed the services of mobile spray tanner Fake ...

Q: My zinnias are really being wiped out this year. I'm suspecting a bug. Sevin dust has helped somewhat. Some of the leaves have holes in them, and a few plants are turning brown and dying. I have ...

Q. I have grown tomatoes since I was a child but have never seen this — big, green, menacing caterpillars that are defoliating my plants and leaving black poop all over the deck. I looked them up on ...

We have several questions from News Leader readers this week, including one about insect control from reader Miller P.: “Last year I discovered what appeared to be white aphids on my full-grown tomato ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The objective of this investigation was to quantify effects of an insecticide (Sevin) on the population dynamics of meadow voles (Microtus ...