For questions about damage from animals
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How do you stop rabbits from eating your lawn?
I'm experimenting with a patch of new lawn (different grass type) in the middle of my existing lawn but it must taste pretty good because the desert cotton tail rabbits are eating all the new shoots.
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fava bean beetle?
I've noticed this beetle on in our Fava beans. They crawl out and fly away, leaving perfectly circular little holes. Any idea what they are and what they do? Besides the little hole, the beans seem ...
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What is eating my ivy?
something is eating the ivy that covers a wall of my house. Is it a disease of is there something hiding that eats the leaves. And what can I do to heal my ivy?
You can see an example of the damage ...
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Orange tree has pest or blight
A few leaves on my orange tree have this.
What is this?
What can I do about it?
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Can anyone identify this abnormality that is on my dwarf citrus?
I recently noticed what looks like small beetles on our dwarf citrus tree. Can anyone identify this abnormality?
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Is this something harmful that I should attempt to ...
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Are these yellow spots due to heat?
This is a kohleria plant.
It had gone thorough a 5 day deficit of water back in Feb/Mar. From that day, it started to develop yellow spots along the rim of the leaves. These have remained as the ...
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How do I repel tree squirrels that are digging holes in my lawn?
My neighborhood is saturated with squirrels, and I see the little critters burying nuts or whatever in my back yard all the time. They leave small holes about 2 inches in diameter in the yard. There ...
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What is causing the bark on my crabapple to crack and peel off?
I have a flowering crabapple in my yard whose bark has several large areas where it cracks and curls away from the wood underneath:
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I ...
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What is this mark that appears on my small green plums?
After the flowers fell the green plums started growing. As soon as they were 1/4" across, They began developing these little sunken black marks. I have been consistently spraying with fruit tree ...
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How can I deal with the beetles eating my grapevine?
My mother is in a furor because the grapevine that she planted last spring and which flourished last year is now infested with little black bugs. From what I can tell, they seem to be flea beetles. ...
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How can I keep earwigs from eating my basil?
Last night I found that earwigs have been eating my newly planted basil plants. They have only been in the ground for a few days, and it didn't take long for the earwigs to find them.
The planted ...
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Deer ate lily buds last year: will the bulbs survive this year?
My mother has been raising an ever-growing family of lilies of various colors for the past 15 years. In the previous house, they would grow to almost 6-foot tall while in the new one (which gets a lot ...
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Should I earth up my radishes to prevent them from being eaten or should I pull them out?
My back yard lacks a bit of sunshine so things don't grow as fast, but they do grow.
I've recently planted radishes for the first time and they have already started pushing out of the ground, however ...
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What are the teeny tiny white bugs on my tomatoes?
The bugs are exceptionally small. I've included a video here.
It may be related to the stretched and disfigured appearance of my tomatoes.
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What is pulling up tufts of grass all over my lawn?
I went to mow the yard today and found 1-2 inch plugs of grass pulled out of the ground all over the place. It looks more like the result of digging than a deliberate pulling out.
What could be doing ...
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How to stop small black worms from eating my strawberries?
I planted strawberries a couple of years ago in a small patch of my back yard (in Sacramento, CA) and this year they are finally producing lots of strawberries. However, something is eating "divots" ...
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How can I control Viburnum Beetle on my Snowball tree?
I have a mature Snowball tree (Viburnum opulus) that is stripped of its leaves and severely weakened several times a year by the viburnum beetle. The Royal Horticultural Society recommend several ...
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What's attacking one Lupin but not its neighbor?
I have two Lupin plants next to each other in my front yard:
They are both Russell hybrids, both grown from seed and planted there at the same time in Spring 2009. The one on the left is healthy, ...
