Our plant of the month is the native hopseed bush, Dodonaea viscosa. It's a fast-growing, lush green, drought-tolerant shrub which has little litter and no thorns.

A: The fuchsia gall mite, a pest that was accidentally introduced to California from the South American homelands of fuchsias in the early 1980s, lives inside the plant, making it hard to reach ...

TAMS officers are establishing a colony of Broom Gall Mites, designed to keep Scotch Broom under control. (ABC News: Robert Herrick) Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article abc ...

Two clusters of gall mites, native to Western Europe, have been found near Eagle Point and in Ashland's Siskiyou Mountain Park.

Kristi Mergenthaler, program coordinator for the Siskiyou Chapter of the Native Plant Society, found gall mites on Scotch broom in Ashland, Ore., two weeks ago. The mites attack the bud tissues ...