Have you ever noticed a small, orange-and-black critters congregating on your summer vegetable plants? Similarly, have you encountered a larger one that appears to be wearing bell bottom pants? A ...

Q: What do you recommend for controlling that ugly, leaf-footed bug that attacks my pomegranates? I want to be prepared. A: They aren’t difficult to kill with a variety of traditional pesticides. The ...

Stink bugs and leaf footed bugs are close cousins in biology and crime. They have similar life cycles. Both kinds of bugs have shield shaped bodies, stink glands and piercing-sucking mouth parts. They ...

It's hard to ignore leaf-footed bugs. They're big, with long legs and antennae and a tubular, piercing "beak." When viewed from above, they seem to have a "X" marked across their backs. Their most ...

For many of us, the tomato harvest this year was dismal. Heavy rains moved in just as fruit was ripening, resulting in fruit splits and a host of disease problems. And fruit the rain didn't damage, ...

Q. This bug, which I don’t recall ever seeing in my 30+ years of gardening in the northeastern San Fernando Valley, was all over my tomato plants this past summer. My questions are: What is it and ...

Q: The last couple of years, the fruit on my pom tree gets brown spots, and it is rotten inside. Any ideas? A: Yes, it’s likely that insects are feeding on your pomegranate fruit and the feeding ...

This column is written by the Master Gardeners of Yolo County each month. It provides answers to selected questions that recently came into the UCCE Master Gardener – Yolo County Help Desk. Question: ...

Q: We have 30-year-old Rhaphiolepis indica planted in a slightly raised planter. One side was particularly hit hard by the freeze a few years ago (17 degrees in Tucson in February), or so we thought, ...

One of the joys of living in a heated house is that you get so many uninvited visitors: house centipedes, black widows, jumping spiders, buzzing flies, miller moths. On this day, some sort of ...

The first thing you’re likely to notice about the Florida leaf-footed bug, other than its generally grotesque appearance, are the red tips on its antennae. Pick one up and you’ll quickly observe ...