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Identifying and dealing with yellowjackets
August 30, 2021

Our Master Gardener Help Desks routinely get calls or emails about bees, wasps, hornets, and other striped or stinging things.

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Good and bad trending insects: pollinators and bagworms
June 29, 2020

Show of hands, please. How many did something to mark National Pollinator Week?

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Over the Garden Fence

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    Bruce Black
    Horticulture Educator
    Serving Carroll, Lee and Whiteside Counties

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