Costelytra giveni is a scourge for pasture and lawn, and also a risk to horticulture and native plant root systems. The two most effective chemicals to control the grub – chlorpyrifos and Diazanon – ...

I plant all summer long. Be sure to keep plants moist before planting to minimize stress on the new plant material.

Skunks can dig up a lawn or garden searching for food and spray pets and people. Learn how to repel and get rid of skunks in ...

Good bugs pollinate our food crops, enrich and fertilize the soil, eat our garbage and provide food for wildlife.

Trimming the grass too short can expose the soil to the sun’s harsh rays, which can dry it out. It also weakens grass blades, leaving the risk of disease and bug attacks as they have less leaf surface ...

Get some 2×2 stakes, about 4-6 feet tall, and stake them around your tree. Often, Campbell doesn’t even use the cloth. Just the act of bumping into the stakes can be enough for deer to look elsewhere.

MSU researchers tracking firefly populations since 2004 see promising signs this summer, though numbers remain below peak ...

Are Japanese beetles wreaking havoc in your Missouri garden? Control moisture levels and hand-picking techniques to help ...

Adult June bugs are called chafers because they eat leaves and flowers of trees and shrubs — they have gained a reputation for ruining gardens and being a nuisance especially in groups, according to ...

We asked pest pros to share whether mothballs really repel skunks or not, and they all agreed that it doesn't work and could ...

The flickering fields of summer nights are back. Fireflies, it seems, are abundant again. Throughout the region, people are ...

Fishing report compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the ...