Recently 150 people came out to Handwerk Potato farm in northern Lehigh County to see alternative Colorado potato beetle control practices. A four-row Bug Beater potato bug vacuum was demonstrated.

At their 104-acre Even Star organic farm in St. Mary’s County, Md., Brett Grohsgal and Christine Bergmark had given up growing potatoes because of nearly invisible hordes of leafhoppers that blow in ...

Re: “Coping during COVID-19: Appreciating loved ones when times get hard” (Mercurynews.com, May 3): Five years ago, I was walking to work and saw a potato bug stuck upside down. I — a man who killed ...

Fortnight ago, the Soviet government sent a formal protest to Washington. U.S. flyers, said the note, were dropping Colorado beetles on East German potato fields. The Estonian republic set up a people ...

Alias: Potato tuberworms hatch as larvae in the late summer to early fall and get nice and fat before overwintering either on potatoes left on bare soil or in a potato cellar. Larvae prefer the upper ...

We all have our own mental image of a “startup.” Whether the idea is formed by pitch competitions like Greenlight Maine or Top Gun, the Wall Street Journal or Inc. magazine or Guy Raz's “How I Built ...