The OGIA/OSU Extension Hands-On Diagnostic Walkabout at the Snyder Park Gardens and Arboretum. The Walkabouts are for Green Industry professionals and provide comprehensive, hands-on training. Participants examine and discuss plants, plant pests, plant diseases, landscape designs, and other points of interest.

Earlier this week, I came across a very unusual Cicada Killer Wasp soil burrow site in southwest Ohio. Cicada killer wasps are so named because females target annual cicadas. However, the “killer” appellation is not entirely accurate.

Spraying Pesticides is about Economics, Efficiency, Efficacy and Environment. This workshop touched on all four of these concepts.

Turf Team Times brings together the OSU Turfgrass Team to share timely updates about what's happening in sports and lawn turf!

The OGIA/OSU Extension Hands-On Diagnostic Walkabout at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. The Walkabouts are for Green Industry professionals and provide comprehensive, hands-on training. Participants examine and discuss plants, plant pests, plant diseases, landscape designs, and other points of interest.

It may seem early to think of Christmas Trees, but a local Northwestern Ohio Christmas Tree Grower was honored for his Grand Champion Christmas Tree at the Ohio Christmas Tree Association tree contest at The Ohio State Fair.

The characteristic leaf “stippling” damage produced by Lace Bugs (order Hemiptera; family Tingidae) is becoming evident in Ohio. The bugs are so named because of the intricate, lace-like pattern of the veins and membranes in their wings, which are held flat over their body.

Have you noticed strands of dry grass protruding from your window frame, sliding door tracks, or other narrow crevices around the home? If so, you may have been visited by the GRASS-CARRYING WASP (Isodontia spp.), also colloquially known as a window wasp. But don't worry, these solitary wasps are good neighbors.

Turf Team Times brings together the OSU Turfgrass Team to share timely updates about what's happening in sports and lawn turf!

I’ve long admired Butternut (a.k.a. White Walnut). Its larger and longer-lived cousin, black walnut, was relatively common in my native West Virginia. Our farm had a “walnut hollow” named for the number of large walnut trees. Butternut trees were rare and their nuts (drupes) highly prized.