Cool-season (northern) and warm-season (southern) grasses are grown in Arkansas. Cool-season grasses grow best in the spring and fall and less actively in the summer. They stay reasonably green in the winter. Tall fescue (Festuca arundi­ nacea) is the most commonly grown cool-season grass in Arkansas. Warmseason grasses are slow to green up in the spring, grow best in the summer and go dormant ...

Cyperus rotundus Linn. (Family: Cyperaceae), commonly known as Motha is a turf grass which grows everywhere including lawns . It has wide range of medicinal and pharmacological applications. It is used in traditional system of medicine and exhibits anti-inflammatory, anti-arthritic, antipyretic, analgesic, antidiabetic, antidiarrhoeal, cytoprotective, antmutagenic, antimicrobial, antioxidant, c...

ment in the management of lawns and landscapes as spring. Sales of all lawn and garden products soar as many homeowners strive for the best looking lawn possible. However, your enthusiasm for returning the lawn to tip-top shape should be tempered enough so that you make sound agronomic and environmental management decisions. Smart choices now will result in a healthy, dense turf canopy that wil...

The present paper studies the content of heavy metals: Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Pb, Ni and Cd in the foliage of an indicator plant dandelion as collected from the lawns and parks of the Warsaw metroplitan area. The results suggest heavy accumulation of Fe, Zn, Pb and Cd as a consequence of the impact of traffic-born pollution. Keywords! dandelion, indicator plant, zinc, copper, iron, lead, cadmium, poll...

The advancement of computer vision technology has allowed for the easy detection weeds and other stressors in turfgrasses agriculture. This study aimed to evaluate feasibility single shot object detectors weed lawns, which represents a difficult task. In this study, four different YOLO (You Only Look Once) version, along with all their various scales, were trained on public ‘Weeds’ dataset 4203...

Large-scale coral reef restoration is needed to help recover structure and function of degraded coral reef ecosystems and mitigate continued coral declines. In situ coral propagation and reef restoration efforts have scaled up significantly in past decades, particularly for the threatened Caribbean staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, but little is known about the role that native competitors ...

The order Hymenoptera includes the bees, ants, and a diverse array of groups we commonly think of as "wasps." As most people were aware, many Hymenoptera can and do sting. In this chapter I will address the question of the hymenopteran sting. What is it? Which Hymenoptera sting? How does it cause pain? Is it dangerous? How can we avoid stings and treat those we do receive? Particularly importan...

Urban green infrastructure significantly influences the functioning of a city and comfort its residents. Lawns are an essential element public greenery. They represent live component, if they lacking, low quality, or neglected, this will cause major problems in urban environment. The vegetation structure grassy areas changes under influence different management methods used for their maintenanc...