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Business

Beech Mountain, N.C., scrambles to save its namesake trees

Beech Mountain, North Carolina is fighting to save its trees, which are falling prey to beech bark disease -- which no pesticide can stop. Click to read more.

August 31, 2016

Business

Researchers to determine which landscape plants boost pollinators

Researchers focused on pollinator protection in ornamental horticulture have been awarded more than $2.8 million from the USDA. Click to read the full details.

August 16, 2016

Business

Target Specialty Products acquisition doubles distribution footprint

Target Specialty Products acquired Residex to become the second largest distributor of professional pest control and turfgrass management supplies. Click for more.

July 11, 2016

Business

Briefly: Landscape industry news and product roundup

Toro makes a charitable donation and New Holland donates big to the Fisher House Foundation. Click to read more in this landscaping industry news roundup.

May 16, 2016

Business

Major nursery backs EPA changes for pesticide workers

In 2017, a number of changes the Environmental Protection Agency has made to the Pesticide Worker Protection Standards will take effect, and Monrovia has its back.

May 2, 2016

Business

Recent headlines may boost demand for mosquito control

Landscaping clients’ concern about mosquitos isn't just simple annoyance and offering an effective mosquito-control service may help your company leap beyond the competition.

April 25, 2016

Business

Vast majority of bugs in landscape are harmless, if not beneficial

Keeping a landscape pest-free is a challenge & you can be handicapped by not using insecticides. Click to find out another way to keep the pest population down.

April 7, 2016

Business

New ArborSystems product takes aim at emerald ash borer

The fight against emerald ash borer beetle is taking off with an insecticide-miticide known as Emamectin Benzoate, used in Direct-Inject Tree Injection System.

February 19, 2016

Design-Build

Startup creates buzz with unique delivery system: bees

Pollinators help out the environment a lot, but one Canadian startup has found a new way that bees can aid in plant health. Bee Vectoring Technologies’ goal is to target the market for pesticides and fertilizers with a biopesticide that is spread by, you guessed it, bees. BVT uses a hive of bumblebees that is […]

February 6, 2016

Business

BioSafe study confirms ZeroTol 2.0 is safe for bees

Studies have shown that pesticides have contributed to a decline in the bee population so BioSafe has been testing ZeroTol 2.0. Click to read the findings.

December 9, 2015

Design-Build

Landscapers’ trade group keeps eye on honeybee health

Since 2013 the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), other associations, government agencies, legislators and academics have focused heightened attention on the plight of pollinators, particularly honeybees. Bees are used to pollinate more than 130 food crops, in addition to 16 percent of flowering plants, yet an increasing number of studies have illustrated a significant […]

August 18, 2015

Business

Man claims to be sprayed with pesticides, sues landscaping company

A landscaping company from Rockville, Maryland, is being sued for $55,000 by an Oregon man who says he was sprayed with pesticides by one of the company’s workers while sitting at an outdoor café on July 18, 2013. According to The Oregonian, Dennis Delano filed the suit in Multnomah County Circuit Court last week. Delano […]

July 20, 2015