Factsheets

Bugs and bites

• Bed Bugs
• Clover Mites
• Fleas
• Mystery Bugs and Bites
• Ticks and Tickborne Diseases

Customer Relations and Marketing

• Ecosystem Services of Landscape Plants: Assistance for marketing and increasing customer awareness (UKY)
• Getting Started in the Green Industry (Penn State)

DIAGNOSTICS of plant problems

• 20 Questions of Plant Diagnosis
• Bacterial Diseases of Plants
• Collecting and Submitting Turf Samples to the Diagnostic Clinic
• Diagnosing Sick Plants
• Fungal and Fungal-like Diseases of Plants
• Nematode Diseases of Plants
• Plants Get Sick Too!
• Submitting Insect Specimens for Identification
• Viral Diseases of Plants

Forestry

• Calibrating Boom Sprayers for Forestry Pesticide Application

insect invaders and home nuisance pests

• Bed Bugs 
• Bed Bugs (UKY)
• Boxelder Bugs and Leaf-Foot Bugs
• Carpenter Ants
• Carpet Beetles
• Cluster Flies, Face Flies, Blow Flies in Homes (UKY)
• Drain Flies
• Millipedes in the Home
• Pharaoh Ants

Insect pests

• Aphids on Trees and Shrubs
• Bagworm and its Control
• Bagworm ID and Management Brochure, U of Nebraska
• Black Vine Weevil and Other Root Weevils
• Chinch Bugs in Turf
• Common Insects of Bedding Plants
• Cottony Maple Scale
• Drain Flies
• Fungus Gnats
• Identification of White Grubs in Turf
• Japanese Beetle
• Lace Bugs
• Magnolia Scale
• Maple Galls
• Spider Mites and Control

INVASIVE SPECIES

• Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven)
• Asian Longhorned Beetle
• Autumn Olive / Russian Olive
• Bush Honeysuckle
• Emerald Ash Borer
• Feral Swine
• Garlic Mustard
• Japanese Beetle
• Japanese Stiltgrass
• Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
• Privet
• Spotted Lanternfly
• Spotted Wing Drosophila in Fruit Crops
• Viburnum Leaf Beetle

Lawncare & Turfgrass management

• Lawn Weed Identification (External site: Purdue U)
• Lawn Weed ID and Management (External site: University of Maryland)
• Organic Lawncare
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pesticide application and safety

• Best Practices for Effective and Efficient Pesticide Application
• Boom Sprayer Calibration
• Calibrating Boom Sprayer for Forestry
• Choosing a Pesticide Product
• How Much Pesticide to Add to My Sprayer Tanks
• Proper Calibration and Operation of Backpack and Hand-Can Pesticide Sprayers
• Protecting Pollinators While Using Pesticides
• Reading Pesticide Labels
• Understanding Pesticides in Organic and Conventional Crop Systems

Phenology and growing degree-days (GDD)

• OSU Growing Degree Day Website
• Predicting Insect Development Using Growing Degree Days (UKY)

plant health management

• Keeping Plants Healthy
• Sanitation and Phytosanitation for the Movement of Plant Material

TREe DISEASES

• Beech Bark Disease
• Black Knot of Prunus
• Diplodia Tip Blight on Two-Needle Pines
• Dutch Elm Disease
• Fire Blight
• Poplar Leaf Rust
• Sudden Oak Death
• Thousand Canker Disease

pollinators

• Attracting Pollinators to the Garden
• Bees in Urban Landscapes
• Bumble Bees in Ohio
• Identify and Enhance Wild Bees in the Landscape
• Ohio Bee Identification
• Ohio Trees for Bees
• What Can You Do To Help Bumble Bees
• What Can You Do To Help Honey Bees
• What Can You Do To Help Native Bees

SOIL

• Soil Testing

Turf diseases and pests

• Billbugs in Turfgrass
• Brown Patch on Turfgrass
• Chinchbugs in Turf
• Collecting and Submitting a Turf Sample for the Clinic
• Dollar Spot on Turfgrass
• Gray Leaf Spot on Turfgrass
• Identifying White Grubs in Turfgrass
• Powdery Mildew on Turfgrass
• Slime Molds on Turfgrass
• Summer Patch on Turfgrass

Wildlife

• Constructing a Deer Proofing Fence, Purdue University
• Relatively Deer Resistant Plant Selections, Penn State
• Squirrel-Proof Your Bird Feeders, and other wildlife deterrents for feeders, University of Nebraska

AdditionaL Resources

• TBD