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Yucca Plant Bugs

Are your Yucca plants looking tired?   Are the leaves lighter in color than usual? If so, they might be infested with Yucca Plant Bugs. These relatives of Stink Bugs and Leaf-footed Bugs have piercing-sucking mouth parts. They feed on the plant by extracting juices from the leaves. The leaf will appear "stippled" with tiny light colored dots. You may see black specks on the leaves, which are the feces of the bug.         Yucca Plant Bugs overwinter as fertilized eggs that have been placed inside the leaf. The eggs hatch in the spring, and "nymphs", which look very much like the adult bug, will cover the [...]

By |April 17th, 2023|

Weeds: Winter Annuals

  Henbit   (Lamium amplexicaule) is a cool season, ANNUAL broadleaf weed with square stems and pink to purple flowers. It is mostly noticed in the early spring after it has had a chance to grow all winter in the lawn and then begins to bloom. These blooms produce seed which will lay dormant over the hot summer, then begin to germinate in the fall as the temperatures cool. The plant itself dies completely in hot temperatures and does not come back from the roots.  Products labeled for pre-emergent control of Henbit include Hi Yield with Dimension and Pendulum 2G.     Wild Carrot   (Daucus carota)  is a biennial broadleaf weed [...]

By |February 27th, 2023|

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