Darrell Deneke remembers the initial skepticism years ago about using flea beetles to control leafy spurge, one of the Upper Midwest's most dangerous weeds. "But biocontrols are pretty well accepted ...

DICKINSON, N.D. - On a pristine morning in the grassy fields skirting Dickinson, a gathering of families patrolled a pasture, sweeping nets across the knee-high forests at their feet. They were ...

March’s Weed of the Month, leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) is an invader of pastures, forage, grasslands, and ditches. It is native to Eurasia and has become widespread throughout the United States.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Field days have been scheduled at multiple North Dakota sites to collect and redistribute flea beetles that eat leafy spurge. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said people ...

Fall Weed Control: Myrtle spurge; many pretty plants are a problem THE ISSUE: Myrtle spurge is a non-native, tap-rooted perennial that does well in low-water landscape situations. The problem is that ...

The department has offered biological control agents to address the weed. Biological control agents range from fungi and bacteria to insects and mites. These agents are not always effective and take ...

You might be harboring a noxious weed disguised as a pretty plant. Myrtle spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites), also known as donkey tail spurge, was once planted as a waterwise ornamental plant but has ...

Seven weeds are designated noxious in Nebraska including musk thistle, Canada thistle, plumeless thistle, spotted knapweed, diffuse knapweed, leafy spurge and purple loosestrife. Leafy spurge and musk ...

When Mike and Clarissa Tofel saw their twin daughters playing in some pretty yellow flowers in their yard, they thought nothing of it. They'd moved into the house the previous November, and in the ...

Spurge weed (Euphorbia) is a native annual indigenous to the eastern U.S., but found in many parts of the country. And although we often associate growing native plants with being the more ...

MISSOULA — Some parents might not be too pleased to find their kids' live bug collection in the family refrigerator. But Bob and Kandee Rich weren't upset when their sons, Jonathan and Matthew, ...

You diligently pulled all those early spring weeds and your landscape was looking pretty nice. But where did all these new weeds come from? Now is the time of year when the summer annual weeds can ...