Strawberries are a crop that face a plethora of pests that want to attack plants and nibble on your precious fruits, potentially ruining any harvest. Ranging from larger mammals to tiny aphids, there ...

Along with the loud song of the cicadas I had another early sign of fall at my house last week. Weevils! About this time of year in the central Midwest states, various insects may begin to take up ...

Root weevils leave scalloping or small semi-circular irregular notches along plant leaf margins. Tracy Wilcox Special to the Washington Post This week, I was weeding my garden and noted considerable ...

Although more than 1,000 species of root weevils scurry about the world, only a few cause problems in the home garden. The one most familiar in the Northwest is the black vine weevil, which commonly ...

KENNEWICK -- Tomato hornworms gorge themselves on tomatoes. Colorado potato beetles devour potatoes. The corn earworm feasts on corn. Root weevils nosh on more than 100 plant species including lilac, ...

It sounds like a scene right out of an old 1950s horror movie. Insects are taking over the world. Hornets are so large they are big enough to carry people away. Insects are taking over homes and ...

KENNEWICK -- I was talking with a Master Gardener the other day about the root weevil problem in his little blueberry patch. Root weevils are a group of specialized brown or black snout-nosed beetles ...

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CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — They call it the strawberry root weevil in the States, but on Okinawa it’s the “humbug” — and it might leave U.S. servicemembers decorating artificial Christmas trees this year.