Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Starosta / Getty Images Tawny and Southern mole crickets are considered garden pests and are often found in warmer, southern ...

Last summer our crape myrtle's leave developed what appeared to be a fungus. It looked like a dusting then turned black on the leaves and trunk. It did not flower this fall. I have pruned it for the ...

Dear Roger: Mole crickets are destroying my lawn. They are feeding in huge numbers. How do I get rid of them? -Joe Ortiz, Fayetteville Dear Joe: Robins, thrushes, mockingbirds and other insect-eating ...

If you think you’d know a cricket by the chirp it makes, you’d never figure out a mole cricket was nearby. These crickets make a noise that sounds like a “guttural growl,” said my trusty Audubon field ...

Pygmy mole crickets are known to be prodigious jumpers on land. Now, researchers have found that the tiny insects have found an ingenious method to jump from the water, too. Their secret is a series ...

Mole crickets are common in suburbia but rarely seen They chirp loudly and have shovel-like front limbs for burrowing They are present in many parts of the world Startled Wynn Vale resident Pauline ...

Pygmy mole crickets are skilled jumpers on land and amazingly on water, too. New research shows how their back legs act like spring-loaded paddles to propel them from the surface of a pond. Researcher ...

Bahia lawns have one big problem – mole crickets. Infestations gradually build to damaging levels that destroy roots and cause the lawn to decline. As spots are affected, weeds fill in the bare spots ...

When Malcolm Burrows first heard the sound of a pygmy mole cricket leaping from water, he was enjoying a sandwich. Burrows, a zoologist from the University of Cambridge, was visiting Cape Town and had ...

If you don't want to welcome predators that can harm your yard, you can introduce certain wasps or nematodes for biocontrol. If you see more than two to four mole crickets per 2-square-foot radius, it ...