QUESTION: Every year our gardenia blossoms are loaded with tiny insects. How can they be controlled? ANSWER: Thrips are marring the beauty of your gardenia. The insects are about the diameter of a ...

QUESTION: I read your recent column about thatch, and it led me back to my age-old question: Doesn’t thatch build up from an accumulation of grass clippings? If so, this is why I always bag my ...

A question for Dan Gill: What is the best way to control thrips on roses?-- Marilyn Answer: Thrips are small insects that attack rose flowers by entering and infesting the buds while they are still ...

Q: I have several roses in my yard, some that I pick to bring indoors. All the roses with the white and pink blossoms keep getting brown steaks in the flowers, making them look like they are diseased.

Thrips on plants in your garden or indoors can cause a lot of damage. Here's how to stop these pests with simple organic techniques. Thrips on plants can spell trouble for gardens, houseplant ...

A nearly invisible invader from the Asian tropics, the thrips parvispinus, was first noticed in Palm Beach County in 2022 by attentive landscapers on tony Palm Beach Island watching their fragrant ...

Q: Do you know anything about a grass seed called CanadaGreen I saw for sale in a magazine? It says it sprouts and covers the area in 10 days and can survive from 120 F to 40 below zero. Is it any ...

The desire to be unique is a hallmark of pop and rock singers. One has only to glance at purple-clad Prince and Bloomingdale’s cosmetics department escapee Boy George for proof. Cyndi Lauper’s ...

Q: I have a white back door and thousands of these very tiny bugs keep landing on the door and then flying up in a cloud when I open it. I have also noticed what looks like the same insect flying out ...

It was bad enough that our region’s cold, wet spring affected our tomato plants’ ability to produce a normal crop. When an unusual insect problem arose on them as well, I began taking it personally.

Cotton growers needing better control of tarnished plant bugs, thrips and other key pests this season have a new tool now available with the biotech trait ThryvOn Technology. The first-of-its-kind, ...

Hot days and dry Santa Ana winds have been the kickoff for chilli thrips season for the past five years in many California rose gardens. The following are the inconvenient truths you need to know ...