Cucumber beetles can destroy your garden fast. Learn how to get rid of them—and stop them from coming back—with these simple ...

Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that ...

" Planting garlic and zucchini together can deter pests like aphids, squash bugs, and cucumber beetles due to garlic's strong odor, which works to repel these insects," says Spoonemore. Garlic's ...

Pests and diseases are biotic factors that impact an ecosystem and its organisms. Examples: those deer mowing your hostas to ...

Resources HomegrownNationalPark.org Education Post-Doctoral Fellow in Entomology, University of Iowa, 1980–1981 Ph.D. Entomology, University of Maryland, 1980 M.S. Entomology, Rutgers University, 1976 ...

When Laurel Williams thinks of soursop, she thinks of ice cream. Not just any ice cream, but the one made from the soursop she grows on her farm in Grenada, a small island nation in the Caribbean Sea.

Control of Bacterial wilt begins with the proper control of the striped and spotted cucumber beetle early in the growing season as pumpkin seedlings emerge from the soil. Stripped and spotted cucumber ...

Bacterial Wilt (Or Erwinia Tracheiphila) This is a bacterium spread by the spotted and striped cucumber beetles and it causes loss of squash plants. Here are some common signals to identify bacterial ...