Taylor Clem: A garden’s pest

  • Pesticides manage garden pests, but our beneficial organisms usually manage many of our garden pests. Misuse of pesticides may affect our beneficial insect population, leading to pesticide dependence. This is an adult female milkweed assassin bug feeding on a cornsilk fly. The cornsilk fly can spread disease. Submitted photo.
    Pesticides manage garden pests, but our beneficial organisms usually manage many of our garden pests. Misuse of pesticides may affect our beneficial insect population, leading to pesticide dependence. This is an adult female milkweed assassin bug feeding on a cornsilk fly. The cornsilk fly can spread disease. Submitted photo.
    It is inevitable – any can attest. Look closely and you will see a garden and its pest. But what is a pest? Usually when we think of the term “pest,” we may think of insect pests. Pests also ...

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