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… 24, 2020 Description:  Water tests can help homeowners and farmers better understand how safe their water sources are … along with some fertility considerations for grazed versus harvested forages and strategies for ensuring more … margins in several ways. Like diversifying in the stock market, engaging in more than one enterprise, and adding …

… on the flowers that this field was being visited by bumble bees that were pollinating the tomato flowers. In the field …

… Maria Cramer , and Dr. Kelly Hamby Optimizing Early Season Pest Management for Maryland Field Corn Background Research … slug damage? Study Design In order to capture the range of pest pressures and growing conditions in Maryland, we … types of pest damage (Figure 1), recording the number of plants and area damaged. We counted the number of healthy and …

…  whose immature stages develop either within or attached to the outside of other insects, referred to as hosts. Parasitoids eventually  kill the host they feed on , as opposed to parasites like … in scarce supply by overwintering in their hosts’ bodies. How do you find parasitoids? Due to the small size of adult …

… Female twig girdlers are attracted to individual shade trees. They lay eggs in 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 inch diameter twigs. They … development the following summer.  Management To monitor for this insect, look for accumulations of twigs under shade … or winter before adults emerge the following spring. Twig pruner adult. Photo: J.A. Davidson, U of MD Twig pruner …