Category: Pests & Disease
Plant Diagnostic Director from Tropical Research and Education Center invited to speak at Kew Garden at First State of the World’s Fungi Symposium
August 27, 2018
MIAMI, Fla. – Romina Gazis, a newly hired Plant Pathologist at The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the Tropical Research and Education Center located in Miami-Dade County, has been invited to speak at the ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: Romina Gazis, TREC, UF-IFAS
Lime Tree Trouble
August 24, 2018
Q: Can you please provide guidance regarding a lime tree in our yard? It yielded more fruit this past summer than in any previous years. It does sit a couple of feet in front of a sprinkler head. Admittedly, we did failed to fertilize it since ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease
Larger canna leafrollers and other tales of terror
August 24, 2018
Out in the garden there are sometimes sinister pests gobbling up large portions of precious ornamental canna leaves. What’s worse is that you cannot find the culprit at a glance. What could possibly eat so much leaf matter in such a short ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease, Pests & DiseaseTags: Canna, Canna Leafrollers, Fecal Firing, Hand-pick, Pest
Nematode Infestation in the Lawn
August 23, 2018
Problem/Situation: We live in Orlando, and a year or so ago, we resodded the front of our lawn (about 17,000 square feet) with St. Augustine grass. Soon after, we hired a professional landscape company to manage the lawn. The lawn did well ... READ MORE
Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Pests & DiseaseThe rain has Lovebugs missing this year
August 23, 2018
By Les Harrison Lovebugs Not Leaving Its Mark The pace of life and the unending supply of distractions in 2018 keep most resident’s thoughts occupied with too many diversions. The student’s recent return to school, the elections, the ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS TeachingTags: Agriculture, Bugs, Educational, Environment, Extension, Florida, Garden, General Information, Growing, Horticulture, Insects, Landscape, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Natural Wakulla, Nature, Plants, Trees, UF-IFAS, Wakulla, Wakulla Agriculture, Wakulla CED, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension