This summer, the real enemy in many Fairbanks gardens wasn’t drought or moose — it was slugs. “I get more calls about slugs every year,” said Gooseberry Peter, agriculture and integrated pest management program assistant with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service. Most people calling have never had slugs before, making these slimy critters a […]
For the past three years, Joey Slowik has focused on preventing slug damage to crops. Along the way, Slowik, an integrated pest management technician with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, has uncovered a lot of odd and interesting information about the often-reviled gastropods. In a free Zoom webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 22, […]
It’s never fun to walk into your garden on a sunny Fairbanks summer day only to find cutworms have sliced your broccoli off at soil level, voles have left tiny tooth marks in your carrots or, worst of all, a moose has chomped on what was a giant cabbage. These are common garden invaders in […]
Alaska State troopers reported on Wednesday morning that a 71-year-old Seward man was placed under arrest on several charges after they received a “report of a disturbance that shots fired near mile seven of the Seward Highway,” on Sunday evening. Troopers received the call at 6:16 PM on Sunday evening, reporting that a “neighbor fired […]