While is sounds like something you might find in a $25 salad at a trendy restaurant, bittercress (Cardamine spp.) is a common weed in your yard during the fall and winter. This cool season annual prefers a shady spot in your lawn. It grows as ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture
In the battle for a beautiful lawn, one very common weed can take over if you let your guard down - artillery weed. This annual weed gets its name from the fact that it forcefully ejects pollen grains from the small flowers it produces year ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture
If the FBI had a most wanted poster for weeds, chances are torpedo grass (aka bullet grass and creeping panic) would make the cut. Introduced as a forage crop for cattle when J. Edgar Hoover was just a lad, it has become one of the worst invasive ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Creating a great looking lawn takes planning, time, and dedication. You water, prune, irrigate, fertilize and mow, and just when you think you have created the perfect plot - you see a weed. This blemish does not necessarily imply you did something ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease
A winter lawn can often look like something out of the apocalypse - large patches of what resembles scorched earth. The cause is not a rider on a pale horse, but something his horse might graze upon - crabgrass. Once considered a potential forage ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture
Native to Europe, Chickweed (Stellaria media) can be found worldwide and is a winter annual weed in Florida landscapes. It can grow throughout the year, but really thrives in the fall and spring. Established across the state, it is more common ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease
There is nothing better than a cozy fire and a beverage of choice on a cold night. Humans have enjoyed it from the bonfires of Samhain, the campfires of our youth, to Burning Man. If you have channeled your inner Paul Bunyan and split a cord ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease
Dollarweed is a very common perennial weed that also goes by the name pennywort. As the name implies, it it about the size of a silver dollar. It also looks just like a mini lily pad - which is appropriate considering how much it likes water. ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease
September is National Head Lice Prevention Month, a valuable yearly reminder for parents to consistently check their children for lice and nits. The head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis, is a parasitic insect found on people's heads, eyebrows, ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease
Did you know that World Mosquito Day is observed annually on August 20th to celebrate Sir Ronald Ross’s discovery of how the malaria parasite (Plasmodium) is transmitted from female Anopheles mosquitos to humans? According to the CDC, in ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease