We all know that lots of different kinds of insects eat leaves. Some just eat the tender bits and leave a skeleton of tough veins behind, while others chew holes in the middle of a leaf. Some make ...

Have you noticed leaves or even flower petals on your plants with perfect quarter-inch to half-inch circles cut in them? I have really noticed them on rose bushes. It looks like someone took a hole ...

Question: My azaleas suddenly started losing their leaves. I saw some small, green things that look like caterpillars on the branches, but after spraying them with Bacillus thuringiensis, they are ...

It is remarkable how, after our prolonged heat, a few late rains and cooler temperatures have triggered roses to resume blooming. It is as if the roses, in defiance of a frost that is just a few weeks ...

Question: Something is cutting semicircles in the edge of my rose leaves. What is it and do I need a control? Answer: Neatly cut and removed semicircles of leaf sections from rose and other foliage is ...

You’ve probably seen plants with leaves chomped into postage stamp edges. Those perforations are appearing now as leaf-cutter bees build nests. The females bite little chunks in foliage and carry it ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: There are little holes around the edges of some of my plant leaves. They are about the same size as those made by carpenter bees in wood. Do carpenter bees feed on plant leaves? — Mike, ...

A bee looks like she is riding a flying broomstick as she takes a piece of leaf she has carefully cut back to her nest. The leaf-cutter bee uses her sharp jaws to cut perfect semi-circles out of ...

Wow, September is going by even faster than this summer did. Now is a great time to start thinking about adding plants to your landscape and/or transplanting ones that are not in the best spot.

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. You’ve probably seen plants with leaves chomped into postage stamp edges. Those perforations ...