Article: Get to know those pesky bugs.

Byline: Rhonda Stansberry

Jul. 20--Are you bothered by bugs? Assaulted by insects? Aggravated by ants? Lots of Midlanders share your pain. Callers to extension offices provide a barometer of the complaints and questions this growing season, said Mary Anna Anderson, an extension assistant in horticulture at the extension office for Douglas and Sarpy Counties. Some years, grasshoppers eat their way through the state. In other years, like this one, billbugs infest lawns, spider mites run amok and bagworms show up in landscape and shelterbelt trees. Blame the climate and timing, said Jim Kalisch of the entomology department at the University of ...

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