Q-I am feeling desperate about my amaryllis. There is a grayish white insect at the base of the leaves and between, especially the newest growth. It resembles common mealybug but seems pointier at the ...

The survival of four populations of wheat-bulb fly eggs was studied. Few eggs disappeared between the time of laying in July and August and hatching in February. Of 3000 eggs from soil samples, none ...

Winter cereal growers should be on the alert to the threat of wheat bulb fly as backward crops could still be susceptible even though an autumn survey indicated a low risk from the pest. Egg-hatch has ...

Dear Helen: Some of my daffodil bulbs produced spindly leaves and no flowers this spring. I dug a few up and found the bulbs to be mushy. What might have caused this? The soil is well drained. You ...

Cereal crops in Northern England are likely to be at high risk of wheat bulb fly attack in the spring, according to early survey results. So far the AHDB’s autumn wheat bulb fly survey has sampled ...

GOUGH 1 has referred to the serious damage caused by wheat bulb fly (Leptohylemyia coarctata Fall.) in Great Britain in 1953 and discussed various means of preventing or reducing attacks. Of the ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Q. This spring, some of my ...

A daffodil-destroying bug is on the march and is spreading through more and more British gardens. Entire beds of daffodils in back gardens, city centre parks, even on moorland hills, are being reduced ...

This year our daffodils only had one or two blooms. In other years it was a blaze of yellow. This has never happened before. What is going on? – AC, Co Galway Known as “daffodil blindness”, there are ...