The extension offers multiple tips for protecting trees and shrubs from periodical cicada damage. Among them: "Place netting around small trees and shrubs (up to 10 feet tall), making sure it is ...

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Although red netting generally isn't used, a 2015 study showed that when crops were irradiated with red light, pest insects known as onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) tended to stay away from the plants.

(NEXSTAR) – Residents strolling through parts of the midwestern and southeastern U.S. might be curious about an increasingly common sight cropping up in their neighborhoods: trees covered in thin, ...

The cicadas are coming. Are your trees and shrubs ready for the invasion? The emerging Brood XII and Brood XIX cicadas love to target deciduous trees, or those that with leaves that change colors and ...

Every 17 years, the cicadas come. There are more than 3,000 species of cicadas, but the ones we’re talking about emerge cyclically. They dig out from their underground pods, molt, grow new wings, mate ...