Indoor Insects
… indoors Identifying Common Household Insect Pests Indoor Plant Insects Structural Pests Insect profiles Ants Bed Bugs …
Clover Mites
… Clover mite (Bryobia praetiosa). Photo: Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado … and are held out in front. Clover mites are nuisance pests in Maryland when they enter houses in large numbers. … fewer factors favoring population increases and the clover mite numbers will become stable. Old lawns sometimes produce …
Pesticide Profile: Horticultural Oil
… injury. Its primary function is to control soft-bodied insect or mite pests through direct contact with the spray. It has multiple …
Fertilizer or Pesticide Burn on Vegetable Leaves
… or tip burn. Symptoms are sometimes confused with disease, insect or mite damage, or problems caused by environmental conditions. … on stressed plants. Stressors, such as drought, disease, insect injury, and frost damage, predispose plants to …
Watch for Thrips and Mites in Vegetables
… caused thrips and to a lesser extent two spotted spider mite, TSSM ( Tetranychus urticae ) populations to rapidly increase in some vegetable fields. These pests feed by puncturing the outer layer of plant tissue and … due to thrips feeding Print Article Return to Vegetable Insect IPM This article appears on June 10, 2021, Volume 12, …
IPM Threshold Guide for Vegetable Crops
Predators
… heavily on insects and snakes effectively providing rodent control. To encourage vertebrate predators in the home …
Pesticide Burn (Phytotoxicity) Damage on Flowers
… or tip burn. Symptoms are sometimes confused with disease, insect or mite damage or problems caused by environmental conditions. … on stressed plants. Stresses, such as drought, disease, insect injury, and frost damage predispose plants to chemical …
Thrips in Home Gardens
… Thrips is both a singular and plural term (as with deer ). Identifying thrips Thrips are small insects with a …
Mid-Summer Insect Scouting Priorities in Row Crops
… Updated: July 14, 2025 By Hayden Schug Mid-Summer Insect Scouting Priorities in Row Crops By Hayden Schug, … University of Maryland. As we move into July and August, insect pressure tends to ramp up across Maryland row crops, … and making timely, threshold-based decisions. Several pests are commonly active during this period, including corn …