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Master Gardeners’ Journal: The secret life of fireflies
By Meredith Bogert, correspondent and Rutgers Master Gardener for Burlington County. I saw the first fireflies in my garden about two weeks ago, and I knew summer had officially arrived. Just for fun, I did some research to learn more about them and thought I’d share what I learned with you: First of all, fireflies […]
Changlu Wang’s Urban Entomology Program Earns HUD Secretary’s 2017 Healthy Homes Award
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) announced that Rutgers Urban Entomology program is one of four model programs around the nation that are recipients of the HUD Secretary’s Award for Healthy Homes, an award recognizing excellence in making indoor environments healthier through healthy homes. For […]
Gardener State: July is American Grown Flowers Month
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County and Rutgers Master Gardeners
Rutgers Master Gardeners graduates 14 interns
NJAES – Master Gardeners of Cumberland County
Ticks and Gardening: What’s the Risk?
By James L. Occi, graduate student, and Dina M. Fonseca, professor, Department of Entomology Reprinted from Gardener News, August 2016 How likely is it that you will get Lyme disease while gardening? Assuming you are a New Jersey gardener, a state in the U.S. epicenter of Lyme disease, it turns out it depends on how […]
Managing the pesky insect known as the roseslug sawfly
Activity from the roseslug sawfly is being seen in our county. The symptoms are white or tan areas on rose leaves, also called windowpaning, as a result of insect larvae eating away the surface area of the leaf between the veins. The rose will grow new…
Gardener State: Growing a better garden
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers Gardens gets a makeover
Rutgers Gardens
Can the nearly extinct American chestnut, once a mainstay, be revived?
Brad Hillman – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Christina Kaunzinger – Department of Landscape Architecture
