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Attract Hummingbirds All Year

Posted: April 9, 2019

Our landscapes are becoming important spaces for many animals to find food, water, and shelter. You can enjoy many beautiful plants while supplementing the diet of a favorite garden visitor, the hummingbird. Learn about a couple of nectar… Read More

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Wildlife

Tags: Flowering Trees, flowers, gardening, hummingbirds, insects, perennials

Honey Bees, are in the air!

by David Austin

Posted: April 2, 2019

The business of bees Honey Bees are everywhere in Highlands County. It’s that time of year when the bees are busy making honey. Because Highlands County produces so much citrus and citrus produces a heavy nectar flow, the… Read More

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Horticulture, Livestock, UF/IFAS Extension

Tags: Agriculture, Citrus, Highlands County, Highlands Horticulture Digest, honey, insects, polliNATION

The Stink Buzz (Bugs): Insect Apocalypse Hype

by Jennifer Carr

Posted: February 26, 2019

First comes the alarmist article meant to grab ’em by the amygdala: “The Insect Apocalypse” published by The New York Times Magazine in November last year. Later comes the more rational article which asks the question in… Read More

Category: Pests & Disease

Tags: citizen science, insects

2019 Tri-State Cucurbit Workshop – February 5th

by Logan Boatwright

Posted: January 23, 2019

The 2019 Tri-State Cucurbit Workshop will provide the latest research information for commercial growers of watermelons, cantaloupe, squash, and cucumbers. A few installments will be refreshing growers about pesticide handling and safety. New cucurbit variety trial results will… Read More

Category: Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture

Tags: cucurbits, diseases, food handling, horticulture, insects, pesticides

Essential Mosquito Control Tips

by Les Harrison

Posted: November 1, 2018

Essential Mosquito Control Tips for Homeowners Click on picture below to view official flyer on Tips

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture, Livestock, Pests & Disease, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching

Tags: Agriculture, bugs, environment, Farming, Florida, garden, gardening, General Information, horticulture, insects, landscape, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Natural Wakulla, Wakulla, Wakulla agriculture, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

Fact Sheets: Lawns and Turfs | Anthacnose | Cerospora Leaf Spot | St Augustine Grass | Fairy Ring | Fertilization | Gray Leaf Spot | Nitrate Leaching | Rust | Pythium Root Rot | Stephen Brown | Lee County Extension

by Stephen Brown

Posted: October 26, 2018

Lawns/Turfs Anthracnose BMP for Home Lawns Bugs in St. Augustinegrass ‘Captiva’ St. Augustinegrass Cercospora Leaf Spot Disease Identification Drought Environmental Stresses and Your Florida Lawn Establishing Your Lawn Fairy Ring… Read More

Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn

Tags: anthracnose, BMPs for home lawns, bugs in St Augustine, cerospora leaf spot, drought, environmental stresses, establishing your lawn, fact sheet, factsheet, fairy ring, fertilization and irrigation, fertilizer, gray leaf spot, helminthosporium leaf spot, herbicides for lawn, insects, lawns, nitrate leaching, pythium root rot, Rust, soft & squishy lawns, soil testing, st augustine grass, sugarcane mosiac virus, thatch, Turf

Fact Sheets: Insects | Stephen Brown | Lee County Extension

by Stephen Brown

Posted: September 26, 2018

Insects A Gallery of Florida Insects Asian Citrus Psyllid Bagworms on Palms Banana Moth Bark Psocid – coming soon Black Thread Scale Braconid Wasps Brown Recluse Spider (pdf) – coming soon Cactus Moth – coming soon Chili… Read More

Category: Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease

Tags: asian citrus psyllid, Bagworms, banana moth, black thread scale, braconid wasps, chili thrips, Citrus leafminer, coconut mealybug, cycad scale, cypress webworms, Eastern lubber grasshopper, fact sheet, factsheet, ficus leaf rolling psyllid, ficus thrips, ficus whitefly, Florida insects, flower beetle, fuller rose beetle, golden rain tree bug, Hibiscus Midge, Insect galls, insects, Lee County, ligustrum olive shootworm catepillar, locate lac scale, Mediterranean fruit fly, Mites, oil soap spray, podocarpus aphids, Red Date Scales, Red Palm Mite, Scale Insects and Mealybugs, Scale on Glaucous Cassia, Scale (Tachardiella mexicana) on Wild Tamarind, Slash Pine Scales, Snowbush Caterpillar/White-tipped Black Moth Feeding, sooty mold, Spiraling Whitefly, Sri Lanka Weevil, St. Augustinegrass Bugs, Stephen Brown, Stinging and Venomous Caterpillars, Tabebuia Thrips, Tiki Hut Caterpillar, Weevil in Sansevieria/Snake Plant, Whiteflies Management, Whiteflies on Cocoplum, Whitefly (Acacia) & Sooty Mold (You Tube), Whitefly (Rugose Spiraling), Yellow-Banded Millipede

Natural Wakulla Fall Wildflower Festival and Plant Sale

by Les Harrison

Posted: September 21, 2018

By Les Harrison Natural Wakulla Fall Wildflower Festival and Plant Sale Saturday, September 22, 2018 9:00am – 1:00pm UF/IFAS Wakulla County Extension Office 84 Cedar Avenue Crawfordville, FL 32327 Les Harrison said, “Educational presentations will be offered… Read More

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Community Volunteers, Crops, Events, Farm Management, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, Professional Development, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching

Tags: Agriculture, Community, educational, environment, environmentally friendly, Extension, Farming, Florida, garden, gardening, General Information, growing, horticulture, insects, landscape, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Living Well in the Panhandle, Master Gardener, Master Gardeners, Natural Wakulla, nature, plants, sustainable living, UF-IFAS, Wakulla, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

Will This Kill My Tree?

by Barbara L. Edmonds

Posted: September 19, 2018

An up close view reveals dozens of hairy, inch long caterpillar, twitching within the fine webbing. Twigs, stems, skeletonized leaves and excrement were visible. Left alone, will these fall webworm kill our young pecan tree? Is this a… Read More

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease

Tags: chewed leaf, chewing, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, holes in leaves, insects, leaves, levy county, pesticide, tree, vegetable