Field and Garden: Corn earworms, tree suckers and dry lawns

The NDSU Plant Diagnostic Lab is a tremendous resource that relatively few people know about.

The lab has been serving North Dakotans for more than 40 years, helping to identify pest and disease problems in lawns, gardens and crop fields.

Just last week, I submitted to the lab several branches from spruce trees that were losing needles.

Three days later, I received a response saying that the trees...