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Stable fly CAES News
12 Stable flies 02/16/06 Nancy C. Hinkle
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
13 Garden spiders 02/16/06 Nancy C. Hinkle, AUBREE ROCHE
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
14 Land planarian 02/16/06 Nancy C. Hinkle
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
15 Houseflies 02/16/06 Nancy C. Hinkle
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.
CAES News
18 Nonstop color 02/16/06
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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17 Gold Medal 02/16/06
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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19 Summer 'snowballs' 02/16/06
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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20 Wisteria winner 02/16/06
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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21 True-blue flowers 02/16/06
Just a glimpse of the bright, true-blue flowers of perennial plumbago and it will be love at first sight. It's easy to see why the Georgia Plant Selections Committee chose this durable, gorgeous flowering groundcover as the 2006 Georgia Gold Medal winner for herbaceous perennials.
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22 Overcup oak 02/16/06
"Bulletproof" is a term for plants that thrive with very little care in many soils and growing conditions. And overcup oak fits the definition perfectly.