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Stable fly CAES News
Stable fly
Compost pile can attract bloodsucking stable flies
Backyard compost piles can be a source of stable flies, and you really don't want that. Stable flies look a lot like houseflies but have one important difference. They bite.
Garden spider in web CAES News
Garden spider in web
Golden garden spiders trap insects in garden
In the sunny days of spring, you won't even notice the tiny young of some beautiful spiders emerging in your garden. But keep watching. By late summer or early fall, you may be able to see these large, striking spiders as they trap and eat insect pests.
Land planarian or shovel-headed worm CAES News
Land planarian or shovel-headed worm
Shovel-headed garden worms rare, harmless oddities
From time to time, someone somewhere in Georgia turns over a rock or log and finds a grayish brown, flat worm with a head shaped like a half-moon. It's one of those things that, when you find it, you just have to find out what it is.
One pair of house flies can result in over a thousand maggots. CAES News
One pair of house flies can result in over a thousand maggots.
Houseflies present never-ending control challenge
There are more than 120,000 species of flies in the world. But when most people hear "fly," they think of the housefly. Wherever people are found, houseflies are there, too.
House centipede CAES News
House centipede
House centipedes are allies in home pest control
If you don't mind alien-looking creatures skittering around your home, house centipedes are handy things to have around.
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Cuphea annual plants provide nonstop summer color
Planting Cuphea in your landscape is like watching nonstop fireworks at a Disney theme park. Three readily available species all deserve their 2006 Georgia Gold Medal for annual plants.
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Georgia Gold Medal give deserving plants a leg up
For 13 years now, the Georgia Plant Selections Committee, Inc., has been recommending each year a new, short list of beautiful, proven landscape plants.
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Georgia Gold Medal winner offers warm 'snowballs'
It seldom snows in Georgia, but it's possible to have warm snowballs in April and May if you plant Chinese Snowball viburnum. The mid-spring snowstorm of flowers it provides makes it easy to see why this striking shrub is the 2006 Georgia Gold Medal winner for shrubs.
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Wisteria? A Georgia Gold Medal winner? Get serious
Wisteria? A Georgia Gold Medal winner? You've got to be kidding. Plant a Japanese or Chinese wisteria in your landscape and you'll spend the rest of your life trying to stop what you've started. But wait. There's another wisteria.

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