Flea beetles are tiny pests that feed on a variety of garden plants. “Flea beetles can cause a lot of damage on edible and ornamental plants,” says Alejandro Del-Pozo, PhD, assistant professor and ...

Bayer Crop Science Canada is excited to announce the launch of Sivanto® Energy, a groundbreaking foliar insecticide designed ...

Flea beetles can wreak havoc in the garden. These insects are recognized by their tiny, shiny bodies that are about the size of a sesame seed. They are typically black, bronze, or a dark metallic blue ...

A: Insects are a big challenge for certain plants in the vegetable garden. In this case, flea beetles are the culprits. These little black insects will jump away rapidly when you disturb them. Thus, ...

Redheaded flea beetles have become a critical nursery pest over the past eight years. Adults cause substantial chewing damage to foliage, leading to unsalable crops. The Mid-Atlantic area sees at ...

Many vegetable bugs are fairly straightforward to control, but others are downright challenging. Flea beetles fall into the latter category. When I was doing the research for my new book “The ...

Darrell Deneke remembers the initial skepticism years ago about using flea beetles to control leafy spurge, one of the Upper Midwest's most dangerous weeds. "But biocontrols are pretty well accepted ...

Two new insect pests popped up in the last couple of weeks. One is the grape flea beetle, which chews holes in grape leaves, and the tomato hornworm, which can be spotted on anything that is soft and ...

Flea beetle damage. It begins with a tiny “shothole,” a hole straight through a leaf as if the leaf was poked with a tiny ice pick. Damage begins with a few holes then faint lacy patternings appear ...

Most transplant insecticide applications for tobacco provide excellent control of tobacco flea beetles for the first three to four weeks that the crop is in the field. After several years of using ...

DICKINSON, N.D. - On a pristine morning in the grassy fields skirting Dickinson, a gathering of families patrolled a pasture, sweeping nets across the knee-high forests at their feet. They were ...

Most transplant insecticide applications for tobacco provide excellent control of tobacco flea beetles for the first three to four weeks that the crop is in the field. After several years of using ...