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Question: Do you know where I can get pheromone traps for insects that cause damage in our area and also for thrips that damage nectarines?
If visiting Yosemite National Park, Calif., is on your bucket list – and it should be – the next two months are the time to go.
I recently purchased an asparagus fern, which now, after a few weeks of tender loving care, has decided to go bonkers. It is sending up spikes of growth with little or no “leaves” on it! Should these be trimmed or left alone and see how they end up?
Mono Lake is one of the most unusual bodies of water you’ll ever experience. So concentrated are its salts that fish can’t live in it, and human beings are so buoyant they have a hard time sinking.
Question: We had a problem with our Thompson seedless grapes. The grapes are about the size of a BB and dried up and fell off.
Question: My grapevines are not growing as usual. I have had them for seven years. They always give me nice big leaves, but this year, they are very small and brown like they are dying or lacking something.
I’m guessing you are a lot like me: got to try new things, experience new environs, keep things fresh. But when that new restaurant or store opens, we’re there. Same goes with golf courses.
Question: I would love to plant op-a-la-ah (not sure of spelling) cactus, the kind that looks like Mickey Mouse ears and grows red cactus pears, also known as prickly pears. Several of my neighbors have them. The problem is the tiny stickers on the fruit. I have heard that there is a variety that does not have stickers. Please advise me what they are called.
Of all the ways one could see the Grand Canyon, one of the very best is to hike across it, rim to rim. It is a tough physical hike, and the logistics are complicated, as you need to get camping permits in advance and arrange transportation from the destination rim back to the trailhead where you presumably left your vehicle.
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Law enforcement leaders said they arrested one man in connection with an alleged illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley.
A local supermarket chain plans to open another store, in a plaza that’s now being named for the grocer.
A man was shot and killed Sunday morning at a North Las Vegas business.
For the second time this month, the Metropolitan Police Department says it was able to locate a missing child by deploying a drone.
