Ladybug Blog

• Plant Galls – Natural Oddities Worth Looking For
  Plant galls are oddities of the plant world created by insects, mites or pathogens whose activity or natural chemicals manipulate plant hormones which then cause abnormal tissue growth. Fungal galls can indicate a serious problem that may eventually severely damage or kill the plant, but galls caused by arthropods very often cause no serious damage […]
• Two of a Kind – Volutella Blight vs Boxwood Blight
  Boxwoods are frequent patients at the Plant Diagnostic Lab. Although they are very pleasing to the eye when perfectly manicured and sculpted, it is a rare sight to see a boxwood left unscathed by disease. Boxwoods are not the most resilient plants, susceptible to a host of pests and pathogens. Two of the most common […]
• Toto, We Aren’t in Kansas Anymore
  I was at a party over the weekend at a friend’s house.  I had no idea she really liked plants, and she said the same thing to me.  It seems strange, but I guess plants never really came up.  As she was showing me around, she said something that I hear all the time from […]