When potato beetles eat the leaves of your home-grown potato plants, your harvest can be reduced substantially.

When potato beetles eat the leaves of your home-grown potato plants, your harvest can be reduced substantially.

If bean beetles decimate the leaves of beans, your first beans picked might be just fine, but later beans might be a lost cause.

Aphids often can be found sucking the juices of tender new growth on many flowering shrubs, causing growth to be somewhat stunted. But control measures are rarely warranted.

Tent caterpillars do an amazing job of building protective webbing around a large section of leaves and stems, creating a safe home for caterpillars to enjoy dinner. But a few colonies of tent caterpillars living in a tree is no cause for alarm. For those bothered by them, the best cure........

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