PSU Master Gardeners Educate About Good and Bad Bugs

Penn State Extension volunteers Joanne Rowland and Jim Dixon from the Master Gardeners of Blair County were at the Blair Home, Garden and Healthy Living Showcase earlier this month.

Rowland said the master gardeners are volunteers who support the Extension’s educational programs in consumer horticulture.

“Today we are educating people about the different types of bugs both good and bad,” she said.

The booth had information about each type of bug and what made them beneficial or invasive.

Dixon said Lantern flies will still continue to be a problem.

“This year there is a new pest known as the J...