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  • Kansas Insect Newsletter

    June edition of the Kansas Insect Newsletter is up. This months articles:   Hugh Wasps With Long "Stingers"   Get Them While They Are Small (grasshoppers)   Rhubarb Curculio   Bagworms Are Active   Good News and Bad News (sawfly...

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  • Check out this weeks K-State Newsletter

    Check it out HERE There are a bunch of great articles relevant to what many of us are going to deal with in the garden this summer: Do Not Over-Fertilize Tomatoes Physiological Leaf Curl in Tomatoes Tomato Leaf-Spot Diseases Onions...

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  • Controlling Bagworms Video

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-RQa9dPC68] brought to you by Kansas State Extension

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  • Junes Kansas Insect Newsletter

    This months newsletter has a great article about Bagworms. Check it out here.

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  • Kansas Insect Newsletter

    Here is May's Kansas Insects Newsletter There is some good info about Pine Needle Scale, Colorado Potato Beetle and Bean Beetle.

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  • Kansas Insect Newsletter

    Check out the new issue of the Kansas Insect Newsletter. It has a good article on climate change and pill bugs.

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  • Forest Health Newsletter

    Spring has arrived - - finally! Here are a few updates on the timing of spring warm-up and a couple tree health issues. As we all know,spring warm-up is late this year. How late? Based on phenological indicators (blooming, budbreak, etc.)...

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  • Kansas Insect Newsletter

    This months Kansas Insect Newsletter has some info on the dreaded Emerald Ash Borer. http://entomology.k-state.edu/doc/Newsletters/2013/Insect-Newsletter-2013-1.pdf

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  • Combined Pesticide Exposure Affects Bumblebee Colonies Story by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Individual worker behavior and colony success are both affected when bees are exposed to a combination of pesticides, according to research conducted by Dr. Richard Gill...

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  • Box Elder Bugs

    Here is a great article about Box Elder Bugs by Dr. Raymond Cloyd. entomology.k-state.edu/doc/Newsletters/KS%20Insect%20Newsletter%2025.pdf

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