Applying pre-emergents to sprouted spurge won't do anything to kill the weed. Instead, pre-emergents must be applied to the yard or garden before spurge appears. If you know you had a spurge ...

Classical biological weed control with insects involves introducing host-specific ... Two insects, the black dot spurge beetle Aphthona nigriscutis , and the copper spurge beetle Aphthona flava can be ...

Goats also eat thistles. Sheep can effectively control leafy spurge. Once they acquire a taste for it, sheep consume large quantities of spurge, which gives them nutritious forage. Sheep are ...