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Animal Damage Management: Woodchucks
Woodchucks are common throughout Indiana, and their extensive burrowing can cause severe damage. This publication shows readers how to identify woodchucks, the damage they can cause, and the ways you can control them.
Animal Damage Management: Woodpeckers
There are 21 woodpecker species in the United States, seven of which live in Indiana. This publication shows readers how to identify woodpeckers, the damage they can cause, and the ways you can control them.
Lady beetles or 'ladybugs' are not always considered beneficial insects, worthy of protection. With the appearance of literally thousands of annoying and smelly lady beetles, flying and crawling inside a home or ...
Black Flies: Biology and Public Health Risk
Black flies, known also as "buffalo gnats" and "turkey gnats," are very small, robust flies that are annoying biting pests of wildlife, livestock, poultry, and humans. Their blood-sucking habits also raise concerns about...
Large black bees hovering around and drilling holes into homes, out-buildings, wooden furniture and decks during May and June are carpenter bees. They resemble, and are often mistaken for bumble bees but the most apparen...
Cicada killers are large, ominous looking wasps that evoke a good deal of fear among people. They look like a giant hornet or huge yellow-jacket and are somewhat aggressive....
Common Tree and Shrub Pests of Indiana
Provides photos and brief descriptions of various tree and shrub insect pests.
Format: PDF.
Pages: 2.
Language: English.
...Invasive Plant Species Fact Sheets: Poison Hemlock
This threepage fact sheet in the Invasive Plant Series provides information on identifying and controlling this poisonous weed. The publication, produced in partnership with the Southern Indiana Cooperative Weed Manageme...
Landscape & Ornamentals: Japanese Beetles in the Urban Landscape
Japanese beetle infestations are found in rural and urban areas throughout Indiana. This publication describes Japanese beetle habits and how to control them in lawns, ornamentals, and food plants.
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The author uses this blog in conjunction with a class as a forum for exploring all subjects touching upon insects and arthropods. Comments are encouraged, but moderated, to encourage a thoughtful community. The author, J...
This resource covers the cause, transmission, and biology of lyme disease. It also has a diagram on tick removal....
Mechanical Damage to Trees: Mowing and Maintenance Equipment
One of the most dangerous pests of trees is humans, especially humans with equipment. Lawn mowers and weed trimmers can cause injuries that create a hazard when an injury leads to tree disease or death. This publication ...
Mosquitoes In and Around the Home
Information in this publication covers where and how mosquitoes develop. It provides suggestions for elimination of mosquito breeding places and control around the home....
A number of different solitary wasps reside in or around homes, yards, and gardens. Because of their frequent associations with humans, these insects often evoke a great deal of anxiety. However, solitary wasps very rare...
Pesticide Use on Potatoes Grown in Indiana
Potatoes, like many vegetable crops, compete with weeds for moisture, sunlights, and nutrients and are attacked by a wide variety of diseases and insects. Most commercial potato growers rely largely on herbicides, fungic...
This publication describes how to identify poison ivy, provides treatment options for those who come in contact with the foliage, and offers control options.
Format: PDF.
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Protecting Pollinators: Recommended Indiana-native Plants for Attracting Pollinators
This publication provides a list of recommended plants that homeowners and others can use to establish and conserve effective pollinator habitats in Indiana - from small-scale backyard improvements to large-scale plan...
Protecting Yourself from Wildlife Diseases: Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis)
Roundworms are parasitic organisms that live in the intestines of animals (including humans). The raccoon roundworm lives in the intestines of raccoons. The roundworm survives by feeding on nutrients that the raccoon has...
Information in this resource covers the characteristics and control of honey bees, bumble bees, paper wasps, hornets, and yellowjackets....
Solitary Bees and Wasps: Carpenter Bee, Cicada Killer and Mud Daubers
Information in this resource covers the characteristics and control of carpenter bees, cicada killers, and mud daubers. ...
Stinging Insects and Medical Risk
This publication discusses the stinging insects and the medical risks associated with their venoms. Stinging insects belong to the insect order Hymenopera, the group...
The Biology and Medical Importance of Ticks in Indiana
This resource covers the biology of Indiana ticks. Graphics on tick removal and life cycles along with tick habitats are shown in this publication....
The Biology of Indiana Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are well known as annoying biting pests and vectors of disease-causing agents to humans and other animals. This publication examines mosquito biology, mosquito-borne diseases, methods of personal protection, a...
Ticks - Biology and Their Control
Describes the habits of the two kinds of ticks commonly found in Indiana. Discusses measures that campers and hikers can take to protect themselves from ticks. Provides suggestions for outdoor and indoor tick control and...
This publication provides property owners and turfgrass management professionals with basic information to: (1) properly identify the most common turfgrass insect pests of Indiana and adjacent states, (2) recognize inse...
Weed Control for the Garden and Landscape
This publication discusses precautions, label clearance, walks, patios, drives, and vegetable gardens. Tables are included listing the non-selective and selective weed killers, vegetables, fruits and nuts, flowering an...
This resource discusses the symtoms and how West Nile Virus is transmitted. Life cycles and breading sites are shown in this publication too....