Growing Dwarf Citrus
… will increase your plant’s defenses against these pests. Prior to bringing citrus plants indoors for the … insecticidal soap labeled for use on houseplants to manage pests. Nearly translucent juvenile scale can be hard to see …
Invasives in Your Woodland: Callery Pear (updated 2025)
… Callerys with Bartletts would make for a blight-resistant tree. The resulting trees were studied for thirty years at a … Forest Service Image Gallery: Callery Pear Callery pear tree. Note the characteristic V-crotch branch structure. Many …
Twig Girdlers and Twig Pruners on Trees
… oak, hackberry, poplar, dogwood, linden, and flowering fruits. Twig pruners are also native longhorned beetles. They …
Branching Out - Winter 2024
… feature, "Native Trees of Maryland," looks at the state tree: the white oak. "Invasives in Your Woodlands" looks at … Educator The white oak is, without a doubt, a remarkable tree species. The tree is truly an impressive specimen where older examples are …
Landscape Management Basics
… at a maximum depth of 3" and never against the trunk of a tree. Maintain even soil moisture. Prevent weed growth and … root zone can extend out 2 to 3 times the height of the tree, well beyond the dripline. Check the depth of soil … dead plants. Rake up and dispose of diseased leaves and fruits. Clean up and compost garden debris in the fall. …
Cucumber Beetles: Spotted or Striped on Vegetables
… pumpkin, muskmelon) legumes, tomato, ornamentals, and fruits, plus many other weeds and cultivated plants. Striped: … apple, pear, green beans, okra, eggplant, and potato, plus tree and shrub blossoms. Signs/symptoms Larvae eat roots and … seedlings for larvae. Inspect chewed leaves, petals, and fruits for adults (especially leaf and fruit undersides …
Invasives in Your Woodland
… Japanese privet (Vol. 28, no. 4 - Fall 2020) 2019 Japanese honeysuckle (Vol. 27, no. 1 - Winter 2019, updated 2025) … updated 2025) English ivy (Vol. 25, no. 2 - Summer 2017) Bush honeysuckles (Vol. 25, no. 3 - Fall, 2017) Japanese …
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) Part 1
… In Asia, BMSB is known to attack high-value crops, such as tree fruit. BMSB has spread and become a pest of homes and more recently fruits and vegetables in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, West … BMSB is a “polyphagous” pest whose host range includes tree fruit, ornamentals, hardwood trees, and cultivated crops …
Common Stink Bugs of the Mid-Atlantic - Hemiptera: Pentatomidae
… stink bugs: Green stink bug: Acrosternum hilare Brown stink bug: Euschistus servus Southern Green stink bug: Nezara viridula Brown Marmorated stink bug: Halyomorpha halys Predatory … orange-yellow line around most of its body (Fig. 1 above). Brown stink bugs are dull brownish-yellow in color and about …
Leaf Key to Common Trees in Maryland (Extension Bulletin #238)
… native to the state. Others have been imported for their fruits, nuts or ornamental features. By using this bulletin, …