A long warm fall for us! How does warmer winter weather affect next year’s garden? In our climate zone, many of the insect pests that are comfortably wintering over in your compost heap may be frozen ...

There are three common underground insect pests often encountered while preparing garden soil or planting a garden. They are grubs, wireworms and cutworms. Grubs are the larval stage of an assortment ...

Early detection of an insect cutworm problem is essential, as most of the cutworm activity usually occurs within 7 to 10 days of plant emergence and continues up until the fourth-leaf stage. There are ...

Weather produced a lot of misery for corn growers in 2009, but where insects were concerned Mother Nature cut them some slack. Bug problems for most farmers were modest, thanks to weather and ...

Cutworm is a generic term referring to the caterpillar of various moth species that attack herbaceous plants. Cutworms appear in swarms to eat through tender stems at the soil line, destroying ...

Cutworms are moth larvae that hide in the soil during the day, and then come out at night to feed on plants. They get their name from their ability to “cut off” a seedling at ground level by chewing ...