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 ...

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 ...

Here’s how to monitor and manage these destructive pests. Cucumber beetles are one of the most devastating garden pests in the South. “They feed on the foliage, blossoms, and skins of fruits of many ...

Q: Last summer I had cucumbers and zucchini wilting and dying even though I’m pretty certain I didn’t have root rot or squash vine borer. What should I try this year so I can hopefully get a harvest?

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 ...

Today’s topic is directly associated with last week's discussion regarding the management of insect populations and is the beginning of a three-part series where we will review a few of the most ...

FRANKFORT, KY—As the popularity of organic produce increases with consumers, growers need more options to manage pests naturally. John D. Sedlacek and Gary R. Cline (retired) of the Land Grant Program ...

To moss or not to moss? Moss is a dense, carpet-like, light-green growth that colonizes all sorts of surfaces (including solid rock) when moss spores are present and the conditions are favorable. Some ...

CORVALLIS – Freshly planted and carefully tended, vegetable gardens can quickly become a magnet for trouble. Problems seem to spring up overnight. Weeds, for instance, can overtake a garden in days.

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 ...

CORVALLIS — Freshly planted and carefully tended, vegetable gardens can quickly become a magnet for trouble. Problems seem to spring up overnight. Weeds, for instance, can overtake a garden in days.