Nov. 18—A spruce budworm outbreak has plagued Maine's northern borders for nearly two decades, with the tree-killing moths making sporadic incursions from Quebec but never reaching numbers that ...

Q:I have a problem with my geraniums. They are beautiful in spring, but as soon as it gets hot (I live in Walnut Creek) the flower buds are eaten from the inside out by little green caterpillars ...

KENNEWICK -- Everything seemed to be going so well in my flower garden after the cold, wet spring and an unbelievably slow start to the season. Little did I know that my flowers, both annuals and ...

An outbreak of western blackheaded budworms that’s been damaging trees in Southeast Alaska for the past few years is tapering off in most places, but a large infestation is still occurring in Juneau ...

Question: I have a question about caterpillars that attack my geraniums every year at the end of July. They eat the budding flowers until they look like dried hollow shells of their former selves. The ...

This article has been updated to change a reference from frap to frass. The western blackheaded budworm is back in Southeast Alaska, and while the larvae lack the appendages needed to make an ...

The baskets of petunias and geraniums are blooming beautifully. Then, suddenly, nothing. The plants still look healthy, but all the flowers are gone. What went wrong? A couple of years ago when it ...

A notice went out in our subdivision on Yale Creek in Island Park that it was western spruce budworm season. This year, the subdivision had arranged for a drone to spray the trees on properties for a ...

TAMPICO, Wash. — This is a story about a bug, a bird and a tree. The bug is a tiny caterpillar, the western spruce budworm, eating its way through eastern Washington forests. The tree is the Douglas ...

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