How to handle the cicada invasion, tomato-planting tips, and hanging baskets: This Weekend in the Garden
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Have you heard a loud screeching hum in the yard yet?
Seen any pinky-sized, hard-shelled bugs flying around that look like locusts with bulging, orange-red eyes?
Keep your eyes peeled for the emergence of Brood X of the 17-year cicadas, a remarkable feat of Pennsylvania nature in which a massive quantity of native, locust-like bugs appears for just a few weeks after spending 17 years underground.
While these bugs might look and sound foreboding, there’s no need to cower behind the compost pile.
The cicadas are coming, so get ready to plug your ears | George Weigel
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IMAGE: Researchers have discovered that tomato fruitworm caterpillars silence their food plants cries for help as they devour their leaves. view more
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Like a scene from a horror movie, tomato fruitworm caterpillars silence their food plants cries for help as they devour their leaves. That is the finding of a multidisciplinary team of researchers, who said the results may yield insights into the abilities of crop plants such as tomato and soybean to withstand additional stressors, like climate change. We have discovered a new strategy whereby an insect uses saliva to inhibit the release of airborne plant defenses through direct manipulation of plant stomata, said Gary Felton, professor and head of the Department of Entomology at Penn State, noting that stomata are tiny pores on plant leaves that regulate gas exchange, including plant defensive emissions and carbon dioxide, between the plant and the en
Noisy Cicadas returning to Philadelphia region this spring
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