This is the final issue of Home, Yard, and Garden Pest Newsletter for 1998. We will resume publishing in April 1999. We hope your investment has been worthwhile. As always, input concerning the newsletter is welcome. Please direct any comments to Phil Nixon, the newsletter coordinator. Comments about specific articles in the newsletter should be directed to the person responsible for that article (author name is listed at the end of each article.) Telephone numbers for authors are listed at the end of each newsletter.