As if weeds and weird weather weren't bad enough, gardeners also have to face insect pests. Here's how to deal with them. Do you garden? I do, and every year, I watch my tomatoes and lettuce get ...

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Infested nuts are believed to be unfit for human consumption. “Every year, New Mexico’s pecan growers have incurred increasingly larger losses at the hand of thieves who raid their pecan groves and ...

Probably spider mites. They’re nearly microscopic pests that suck the fluids and the color right out of the leaves. They start at the bottoms of the plants, and they work their way upward.

If you have a lychee tree, check out photos of LEM by doing a Google Images search for “LEM on lychee ifas” to learn what to look for when scouting for this new pest.

Trees are very useful to us. Besides being beautiful centerpieces in a landscape, they serve as habitats for various birds, mammals, and insects.

Photo: Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS Biosecurity officials are admitting defeat, saying it is no longer possible to wipe out a destructive species of tree-boring pest from a city's parks.

A tree-boring pest native to southeast Asia is destroying species in Perth's city parks. Photo: Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS Biosecurity officials are admitting defeat, saying it is no longer ...