The western bewildering bushmallow is endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area. It returned for the first time in over 100 years ...

The tree disease that exploded in Bay Area forests three decades ago, stunning residents with vast die-offs in parks and neighborhoods before slowing, has opened a new front with a second, potentially ...

Your garden plants are going to sleep for the winter. Unfortunately, so are the pathogens that cause diseases that attack them. Plant pathogens include fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematodes. Bacteria ...

Fall in the Florida garden can sometimes feel and look like spring. We had a week of cool weather earlier in the fall, but ...

BEIJING -- China has developed a sky-ground intelligent monitoring and early warning system for plant pests and diseases, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese ...

DEAR NEIL: In raking leaves from shrubs around the house I’ve noticed asps on a couple of hollies. What is the best way to ...

Conditions are quite different today as I step into the early November woods for a walk. With the leaf drop and the not-yet snow cover, the forest is very open, and I see plenty of things that were ...

Bradford pears have notoriously weak crotches (branch angles). Think of your index and middle fingers forming a “V” for ...

The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae — Entomophthora translates to “ destroyer of ...

Seventeen new species of plant bugs—a group of insects with a strawlike mouth used to feed on plant and animal matter—have ...

The number of E. coli cases linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has risen to 90, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, up from 75 reported cases Friday. The slivered ...

Florida Sunshine anise has no major pest or disease issues and is cold hardy — meaning it can survive the winter — in all of Louisiana. With its medium to fast growth rate, this shrub will ...