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Too late to go after bagworms
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Here are some late summer gardening issues that some of you may
have been wondering about.
Too late to spray for bagworms --- Bagworms can cause a great deal
of damage during the last few weeks of feeding, and gardeners may be
tempted to spray for them now. But late-August sprays are totally
ineffective. Understanding the life cycle of this moth will explain
why and help while planning effective control measures.
In Kansas, bagworms normally finish feeding and close their bags
du...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe
; Q. Do people eat stink bugs? J.A., Pembroke A. They do in Mexico, India and Africa. Altogether there are more than 5,000 species of stink bugs, several hundred of them in North America. Wherever stink bugs go they leave a secretion with an unpleasant smell, released from glands on the bug's thorax.
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What a stinker!
Sunday News Lancaster, PA
; ... things. They're very annoying." In October 2007, columnist and radio host Michael Smerconish wrote in the Philadelphia Daily News about his battle with stink bugs. "They've overrun my house in the burbs," Smerconish penned. "Maybe yours, too. I find them ...
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Arkansas Farmers Seek Solutions to Infestation of Stink Bugs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; By David Mercer, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 19--Gus Lorenz suspected something might be wrong when stink bugs showed up in wheat fields earlier this year. A variety of ...
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Smell is the least of your garden worries with stink bugs.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Q. What can you tell me about a local bug that is about a half-inch long by a quarter-inch wide, has a triangle on its back, is brownish and smells bad? A. It sounds like you are describing a consperse stink bug, Euschistus conspersus. This true bug, order Hemiptera, has a shield-shaped body with a
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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The stink bug is here; Tiny pest that can devastate crops is found in Britain.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: MARK PRIGG;FLORA STUBBS STINK bugs - tiny crop pests that plague American and African farmers - have been found breeding in London, scientists have revealed. Experts at the Natural History Museum say three colonies of Nezara viridula, sometimes known as the green vegetable bug, have been
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