These small bugs can be a big problem for your plants. Thrips are thin, tiny winged insects that are hard to see with the naked eye. However, despite their small size, they are bad news for your ...

Learn how to rid your garden of thrips, before they destroy your favorite plants.

It was bad enough that our region’s cold, wet spring affected our tomato plants’ ability to produce a normal crop. When an unusual insect problem arose on them as well, I began taking it personally.

Q: How do I know if my plants have thrips? My oranges have strange scars on the rind, but I can’t see any bugs. Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long) slender insects that cause mostly cosmetic ...

Heavy rains have brought much-needed moisture, and with the rains come the insects. In my garden, potatoes have white flies.

Cotton growers needing better control of tarnished plant bugs, thrips and other key pests this season have a new tool now available with the biotech trait ThryvOn Technology. The first-of-its-kind, ...

Q:I have a 30-year-old myoporum tree that, I'm told by an arborist, has mites that are causing its leaves to shrivel and turn brown. It's also growing mushrooms on its trunk and has a fungus. The ...

One of my favorite flowers to cut and bring in the house in the summer are gladiolus. A question often raised is “how do you prevent thrips in gladiolus?” Thrips seem to be the biggest pest for this ...

Every year, small insects infest my gardenia blooms and destroy them. I want to bring some in and display them but with these insects I can’t. Do you have a solution? These insects, thrips, are a ...

A couple of years ago, I noticed that my beautiful Sasanqua camellias were suddenly looking wretched. Their normally shiny green leaves were turning pale or silvery in places, and many were falling ...