Protecting ourselves, family, pets and environment means managing harmful arthropod pests that may vector disease without endangering pollinators.
(05/14/24) An LSU AgCenter researcher and her team have developed an online tool to assist in locating different varieties of ticks.
The article describes the emerald ash borer and its management.
The eastern lubber grasshopper is locally common in swamps, open woodlands, weedy fields, and ditches in the southeastern United States.
The forest tent caterpillar is a widespread defoliator that is native throughout most of the continental United States and Canada.
New invasive found in Louisiana. Sciotothrips dorsalis (Hood), the chilli thrip, is a pest of tropical and subtropical regions. Established populations were first found in Florida in 2005, in Houston on landscape roses in 2007 and New Orleans on Knock Out roses in 2009.
New invasive that has been found in Louisiana. Information and pictures of this new pest.