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Fungus Gnats 17 November 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With winter weather approaching many of us bring our tender plants indoors for the winter. With the plants we sometimes get their pests. When these insects have a little population explosion inside our [...]

Crickets 13 October 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Feeling a little jumpy lately? Late summer and early fall are when cricket populations seem to be everywhere there is vegetation and sometimes in your house. This is not usually a problem for our [...]

Hornworms 28 July 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About this time of year many of us are finding insects eating in our vegetable gardens, most are welcome because they are eating each other and some not so much because they are after [...]

Emerald Ash Borer 21 July 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The emerald ash borer, a new invasive insect was found early this month in Fairfax County in the Herndon and Springfield areas. It is not the first time this creature has crossed [...]

Assassin Bugs 23 June 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Often when I teach people about insects I am asked what is my favorite insect. Although I have trouble choosing one over another because they are all so loveable I usually, when pressed, [...]

Asian Ambrosia Beetle 9 June 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As spring weather brings our plants back into action it also inspires insects to get back to work. Often we discover insects damaging plants in the spring when trees or shrubs fail [...]

Carpenter Bees 2 June 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are seeing large, black and yellow bees hovering around the eaves, decks, and wood siding of your home you may be hosting some of our beneficial pollinators. Many of these are [...]

Ticks 5 May 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Landscape gardening is not without pitfalls. While we are mostly looking to protect our plants from problems sometimes we need to look out for ourselves. Poison ivy and mosquitoes are troublesome but nothing seems [...]

Lace Bugs 21 April 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are a variety of lace bugs in our environment and they feed on many of our ornamental trees and shrubs including azalea, rhododendron, sycamore, broad-leaved evergreens, and others. In the spring we [...]

Carpenter Ants 14 April 2008 Virginia Cooperative Extension, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Office 460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 phone: 434.872.4580   fax: 434.872.4578 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is about this time of year that folks start seeing insects wandering around inside their houses. One of the more noticeable of these insects is the carpenter ant. Carpenter ants eating sugar. [...]