My first encounter with old-fashioned potato beetles took place very early in my career. This was way before there was such a thing as the internet. A client brought in an elongated, dark gray beetle ...

Scientists in New Brunswick are fitting pesky insects with tiny radar transmitters to pinpoint where the bugs are causing damage. Research shows the six-legged Colorado Potato Beetle can zip from ...

Q: What kind of grass or weed is this in our lawn? It’s by our driveway in front of our house. What can we use to curb it? — Roxane Eckroth, Wahpeton, N.D. A: Wide-bladed, weedy grasses are sometimes ...

TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh has urged English gardeners to keep an eye out for a pesky little insect which he said posed a threat to the British potato industry amid an outbreak of the invasive ...

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