If you have not been following my tweets, the leaf-footed plant bug that infests pomegranates, pistachios, tomatoes and almonds was reported to me about a month ago. The bugs’ numbers should be ...

Q: What do you recommend for controlling that ugly, leaf-footed bug that attacks my pomegranates? I want to be prepared. A: They aren’t difficult to kill with a variety of traditional pesticides. The ...

Silly looking leaf-footed bugs (Leptoglossus phyllopus) have arrived to dine on my tomatoes. Some of the spidery sepals that perch like hats on tomatoes looked like they had multiplied several times ...

Q. This bug, which I don’t recall ever seeing in my 30+ years of gardening in the northeastern San Fernando Valley, was all over my tomato plants this past summer. My questions are: What is it and ...

Question: We have tiny black gnat-like bugs flying around the house. They seem to live in the dirt of my plants and though they don’t bite, they annoy us endlessly. I put the plants outside to see if ...

Q: We have 30-year-old Rhaphiolepis indica planted in a slightly raised planter. One side was particularly hit hard by the freeze a few years ago (17 degrees in Tucson in February), or so we thought, ...

Are bad bugs lurking in your garden? Do you know what kind they are or just that they are undoing all your hard work and patience? Identifying the offending insect is the first step toward solving ...