Ask any vegetable gardener about beans and pull up a chair. Some grow lima beans, dry beans or wax beans but almost every home garden has a patch of green beans. Beans grow quickly and don't need much ...

Though their life cycles differ, soybean aphids and bean leaf beetles can both pose significant threats to emerging soybeans due to the timing of their own emergence. Although the first bean leaf ...

Forest leaf litter, often likened to terrestrial coral reefs, supports an astonishing variety of life. Among the myriad arthropods dwelling in this ecosystem, beetles emerge as the most common and ...

American elms, Ulmus americana, are native to North America from Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia and from Texas to Florida. They grow 60 to 80 feet tall, with a thick trunk, the shape of a vase and a ...

Yardwork is going slowly but purposefully. I thought I’d been diligent about following my notes from last season, but I slipped up and forgot to check the lilies when they began to emerge. Last season ...

The Minnesota home garden has a new enemy — the viburnum leaf beetle — and officials are asking the public to help them keep an eye on it. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture reported finding the ...

Q: I’m growing several of our native viburnum shrubs because I enjoy their autumn foliage colors, berries for the birds, and spring/summer flowers. I’m concerned about a pest I’ve heard about that ...

“The leaves of my arrowwood viburnums look like they have been shredded, and the small pieces of leaves that remain have turned completely brown. This has not happened in previous years. I had always ...

Stuffy nose. Itchy eyes. Sneezing. Ragweed plants packed with lightweight pollen that spreads easily are a common trigger for hay fever symptoms such as these. It’s one of the most common weed ...