by scmgadmin | Dec 22, 2021 | Food, Information, Plant Pests, Seeds
In New Mexico, Money Grows on Trees Excerpted from EATER NEWS – 6 December – Author – Karen Fischer Outside of Gallup NM, along Highway 602, is what is locally known as the Checkerboard. Parcels of land in the Checkerboard are, as the name might imply, mixed —...
by Paget Rose | Aug 13, 2020 | Plant Pests, Tips & Ideas
Learning From Squash Bugs by Linda Walsh – SEMG 2018 If There’s Squash Bugs in Heaven I Ain’t Staying is the title of Stacia Spragg-Baude’s biography of Evelyn Curtis Losack, woman farmer and water rights activist from Corrales. With all there is to talk about...
by scmgadmin | May 20, 2020 | Plant Pests
Moth Invasion May 2020 From Dr. Amanda Skidmore, IPM Specialist Most of the moths we are seeing are Noctuidae, possibly cut worm species. These moths are making the news in the ABQ area. It looks like Jason Schaller (ABQ BioPark entomologist) is on top of it....
by Scott Lake | Sep 7, 2018 | Experiences, Plant Pests, Tips & Ideas
Science Triumphs By Dudley Vines, SCMG A few months ago Linda Walsh, a 2018 SCMG intern, emailed me (one of her mentors) worried about some spots on her cherry tree. She said they looked like tiny red bugs, but since they didn’t move she thought maybe they were some...
by scmgadmin | May 1, 2017 | Plant Pests
Good Bug, Bad Bug Good Bug, Bad Bug By Dudley Vines Vegetable gardeners around these parts soon learn to hate the squash bug, but check out this photo: Spined soldier bug nymph (left) attacking squash bug nymph. There is a wide variety of...
by scmgadmin | Feb 7, 2017 | Experiences, Growing Tips, NMSU, Plant Pests
Who’s Afraid of Curly Top? Who’s Afraid of Curly Top? You may remember the old Shirley Temple movies, with that cute little tap dancing tot that could charm even the crustiest curmudgeon. Shirley was nicknamed Curly Top, and she even starred in a movie by that name....