Q:I hope you can help me. Last year, we had a major invasion of spotted cucumber beetles. I began with my usual routine with pests: hand-picking and dropping them into a pan of soapy water. Soon I was ...

Q: I’ve begun seeing insects in my garden that look like little green ladybugs. They’re eating flower petals and leaves. What can I do to get rid of them? Carol G., Cambria A: Except for its shape and ...

Q. What's going on with my lilac (see photo)? How concerned should I be? It flowered great this spring and was just fine in this spot for four or five years. I didn't water it or anything last year in ...

Your carefully nurtured cucumber plants are suddenly wilting despite all your best efforts. Or maybe it's your squash, melon or pumpkin plants that are affected. Perhaps you see a bug you don't ...

Have your ever looked at a plant in your garden and seen these lovely little green bugs with black dots? Oh, a green lady bug, you might have thought. Not so, rather it’s Diabrotica, a widespread ...

Do you have cucumber beetles bugging your garden? Do you want to send them packing? Let's learn about their lifecycle first, and then discuss some control methods. There are two types of cucumber ...

Gardeners, beware! With the onset of warm days, there is a ravenous pest than can move rapidly onto its favored plants, curcurbits or melons (especially honeydew, crenshaw and casaba), and begin ...

Signs of cucumber beetle activity include chewed leaves, holes, dimples, and scars on fruits. Cucumber beetles transmit bacterial wilt and cucumber mosaic virus, which cause plant death. Cucumber ...

Recent weather has been conducive to the development of powdery mildew on several plants in landscapes. Monarda (bee balm), columbine, garden phlox, pulmonaria, roses, lilacs, and several fruit and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Cantaloupe growers who walk their fields searching for two crop-damaging insects can do just as good a job if they let the pests come to them. A three-year study by Purdue ...