One of my favorite flowers to cut and bring in the house in the summer are gladiolus. A question often raised is “how do you prevent thrips in gladiolus?” Thrips seem to be the biggest pest for this ...
Cotton growers needing better control of tarnished plant bugs, thrips and other key pests this season have a new tool now available with the biotech trait ThryvOn Technology. The first-of-its-kind, ...
A blue grama grass seed field sits in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. (Gary White Photo) For grass seed producers and others concerned about controlling grass thrips populations, University of Wyoming ...
Q: I have a white back door and thousands of these very tiny bugs keep landing on the door and then flying up in a cloud when I open it. I have also noticed what looks like the same insect flying out ...
Do you have a nectarine tree that has a history of producing scarred misshapen fruit? If so, the damage to the fruit is probably caused by Western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) and the ...
A new biotech trait currently in the development stage could provide improved control of thrips and plant bugs in cotton. While not yet commercially available, researchers are pleased with trial ...
Releases of predacious mites are recommended for use in greenhouse flower crops for suppression of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande). Control from predacious mites alone, ...
A couple of years ago, I noticed that my beautiful Sasanqua camellias were suddenly looking wretched. Their normally shiny green leaves were turning pale or silvery in places, and many were falling ...
It happens to all of us sooner or later: You think you have the perfect gladiola or sweat pea blooming, so you decide to harvest and bring some of your beauties indoors for bragging rights. Then you ...
Hot days and dry Santa Ana winds have been the kickoff for chilli thrips season for the past five years in many California rose gardens. The following are the inconvenient truths you need to know ...
Do you have a nectarine tree that has a history of producing scarred misshapen fruit? If so, the damage to the fruit is probably caused by western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) and the ...
LARAMIE – For grass seed producers and others concerned about controlling grass thrip populations, the University of Wyoming Extension has released a new management guide. The free digital publication ...