Category: Pests & Disease
Question of the Day- Vaseygrass, Johnsongrass, or Guinea Grass?
May 20, 2019
Vaseygrass, Johnsongrass, or Guinea Grass? Proper identification is the key to any successful herbicide program. This time of year questions and pictures come flooding in to assist clients in the identification of perennial grasses growing ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Pests & DiseaseTags: Guinea Grass, Johnsongrass, Vaseygrass
Love is in the air… and all over the car windshield
May 15, 2019
The few things we can count on in Florida in the spring – heat, humidity, sunshine, and lovebugs. Yes, those small, black bugs that are everywhere, but especially splattered across the front of our cars. You are lucky if your daily commute ... READ MORE
Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & LifeTags: Environment, Horticulture, Insect, Insects, Land Insects, Landscape Insects, Lovebug, Pgm_Chemicals
2019 Air Potato Challenge Day Events: Information and Registration
May 14, 2019
Air potato is one of Florida’s most problematic invasive plants. The air potato leaf beetle is a small but formidable enemy of this invasive plant. The insect is bright red, about the size of a pinky fingernail, and has a big appetite ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & LifeTags: #ufbugs, #UFstory, Biological Control
A New SWFREC Dormitory
April 23, 2019
Located in Immokalee, Florida, the UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research & Education Center (SWFREC) serves growers, farmers, and community members in Collier, Charlotte, Glades, Hendry, and Lee counties. Faculty direct graduate student research ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS TeachingTags: Graduate Students, IFAS, Student Dormitory, SWFREC, UF
Air Potato Beetles Bring Down Invasive Air Potato Vine Statewide
April 22, 2019
AIR POTATO BEETLES AT WORK Bernadette Stange leaned backward like a palm tree yielding to wind, balancing herself on the forest floor under a dome of 2-story high pine trees tangled with ropes of vines dressed in polished spade-shaped leaves. ... READ MORE
Category: Horticulture, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Root Biology Science Grant
April 16, 2019
Even though almost all of Florida’s citrus trees are now affected by citrus greening, a disease that has compromised the state’s most valuable crop, growers and scientists are working to slow the disease and produce healthy fruit on trees ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Research
AWARENESS OF BEDBUGS IN AN INTERGENERATIONAL SETTING J.E. Davis, UF/IFAS Extension, Sumter and Hernando Counties, Bushnell, FL
April 15, 2019
Situation: The bed bug (Cimex lectularius) has become one of the most important insect pests in urban entomology in The United States. Bedbugs can be found in mattresses and found in school items such as books and backpacks. To prevent bedbug ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: 2019, 2019 UF/IFAS Central District Symposium, 4-H, 4-H Youth Development, Bedbugs, Davis, UF/IFAS Extension Sumter And Hernando County
Fulbright Scholar
April 5, 2019
Philippines Fulbright Scholar Finds Lady Bugs Will Control Florida Red Scale Pest Insects A Fulbright Scholar from the Philippines has found that lady beetles will attack and control the Florida red scale, a pest insect that damages the ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Research