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How to Spot and Get Rid of Scale on Your Garden Plants

Scale insects are nasty little plant suckers that are relatively common among indoor and outdoor plants and trees. They are also hard to spot and suck the sap from plants, eventually taking away all of the essential nutrients plants need to survive. The bugs don’t just suck the life from plants, they also spread disease similar to spider mites, these …

CITRUS NURSERY SOURCE: Moving From Creation to Adoption
By Peter Chaires Growers and nurserymen have come to understand that citrus breeding is a continuum. It can’t be turned on and off like a light switch. Though priorities of emphasis, available techniques, tools and technologies may change, large shifts in breeding objectives take time and can produce delays and inefficiencies. Making crosses is a […]
CUPS and IPCs Spotlighted at Field Day
In the long battle against HLB, there have been no tactics as successful at safeguarding citrus trees as protective screen. Citrus under protective screen (CUPS) structures can exclude the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) and HLB from entire blocks, while individual protective covers (IPCs) can keep individual trees free of HLB for the critical first few […]