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Home and Garden Articles and Links

The following special interest articles are provided to help you with your home and garden. More helpful articles will be posted over the next few weeks.

Questions about insects around your house?

Do you have questions about insects that you see around your house? Wizzie Brown, the Texas AgriLife Extension Program Specialist, has some answers.

She gets questions from people on insects and now has a new blog that is a great way to update people on insects, how to identify things they might be seeing in their yard and what to do about those pests. So, if you have questions about insects, check out her blog at www.urban-ipm.blogspot.com You can either subscribe to have the latest blog sent to your email or you can subscribe through a RSS reader. She generally updates the Blog weekly to keep current with insect activity.

Prevention is the key to decreasing Oak Wilt spread

Texas Forest Service is encouraging Texans to be careful when collecting and purchasing firewood at this time of year. Transporting and storing diseased wood is a known means of spreading the devastating oak wilt fungus to previously uninfected neighborhoods. To read the full article, follow this link...

Updated July 19, 2008

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