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Gardening: Protecting your pink hibiscus

As I mentioned in my last column, many pests can feed on hibiscus making this a very high maintenance choice for your landscape. Chewing insects include caterpillars, grasshoppers, snails and slugs, beetles, cut worms and leaf miners. Piercing-sucking insects include scale, mealybugs, spider mites, aphids, whiteflies and thrips. These pests are more of a problem in areas of poor circulation. The ...

Invading cannibal ladybirds take over Britain's homes

It started with the squirrels – Britain's native reds being ousted by their ruthless grey American cousins. Now another battle is unfolding, one which could be even more catastrophic for an iconic species. Ladybird wars have broken out in the UK – and this time humans are caught in the crossfire.

MicroCrystals Discovery Puts Planet Amazing's Environmentally Safe Pesticide Products on the Cutting Edge

Toxins used in the past as pesticides have been replaced by the non-toxic, environmentally-friendly microcrystal substance.Austin, Texas (PRWEB) January 24, 2012 A variety of tiny insects plague mankind, and a new discovery from scientists has put Planet Amazing on the cutting edge of environmental pesticides. Eliminating the toxins of the past, Planet Amazing products now have a patented ...

Predators too prefer food with nutritional value

Sydney, Jan 13 (IANS) Predators can also be quite finicky about food, preferring that which offers high nutritional value rather than calorie content.

Bermudagrass is more suited in our state than buffalograss

Dear Neil: How well is buffalograss suited for use as a lawn in Texas? The area where I'd like to use it is part sun/part shade. Can I get away with not watering it once it's established?