My first encounter with old-fashioned potato beetles took place very early in my career. This was way before there was such a thing as the internet. A client brought in an elongated, dark gray beetle ...

Q: What kind of grass or weed is this in our lawn? It’s by our driveway in front of our house. What can we use to curb it? — Roxane Eckroth, Wahpeton, N.D. A: Wide-bladed, weedy grasses are sometimes ...

Alias: Potato tuberworms hatch as larvae in the late summer to early fall and get nice and fat before overwintering either on potatoes left on bare soil or in a potato cellar. Larvae prefer the upper ...

DEAR JOAN: We have recently found two large potato bugs in our house. We never have seen them in the house or our yard before, and we’ve been here since 1987. I guess they are reasonably harmless, but ...

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