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In your yard
- Landscape Crop Advisory Team (CAT) Alert newsletter, pest management advice for landscape maintenance, nursery production, turfgrass, Christmas trees, forestry, and the home environment. Articles and reports written by MSU Extension faculty and field educators. Current season issues along with searchable archives are available.
- MSU's Emerald ash borer advice. This invasive species is devastating Michigan's ash trees. See Distinguishing ash from other common trees or Ash Tree Identification (Download Adobe Acrobat Reader to view pdf files.) if you are unsure which trees are ashes. Recommended Trees for Michigan's Lower Peninsula has advice about alternative trees to plant in landscapes and along streets.
- Resources from MSU's Master Gardener Volunteer program.
- Grow native plants to encourage beneficial insects. This site includes fact sheets on over 20 plants.
- MSU's Purple Loosestrife Project works with K-12 teaching professionals, naturalists, property managers and citizen groups to control purple loosestrife and foster stewardship of our natural resources. Project participants learn to rear and release natural enemies of the invasive weed. The site hosted by Michigan Sea Grant offers FAQ's and more information about this effort.
- Multi-colored Asian lady beetle: a good bug with some bad habits. Information for homeowners and fruit growers.
- Garlic mustard is an exotic invasive plant that invades woodlands. It crowds out Michigan's showy spring blooming plants like trilliums, trout lilies, and spring beauty. Learn how to limit its spread.
- Michigan's Gypsy Moth Education site
- Ornamental Plants database covers most plants in the nursery trade through Zone 6.
- IPM Scouting in herbaceous perennials
- IPM scouting in woody landscape plants
- Identifying weeds in nurseries and landscapes
- Identifying weeds in Christmas Trees
- Identify natural enemies that offer you biological control.
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In your house
- "What's Bugging You? 2002" discusses over 70 pests and beneficial organisms encountered in the home, backyard and places of recreation. Articles also include insecticide safety, poisoning and classification, reactions to bee stings, home and maintenance tips. For order form for more information (pdf file) (Download Adobe Acrobat Reader to view pdf files.).
- Boxelder bugs, a common home invader.
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