Why not create a “beneficial insectary” in your landscape? A landscape insectary incorporates flowers, herbs, and native ...

Identify common garden insects with these garden bugs’ pictures and descriptions and become an expert bug identifier. I never use pesticides in my gardens. To do so would interfere with the life ...

Nobody wants wasps hovering over them -- or worse, finding their way into your home. While using salt can kill them, there's ...

One insect we commonly see on window screens late in the fall is hackberry psyllids (Pachypsylla spp.). These insects are ...

However, a lot of the common bugs we see every day are very beneficial organisms that deserve some appreciation ... According to National Geographic, spiders control “insect populations that could ...

Leaving leaf litter on lawns can benefit overwintering insects, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert said.

While spring, summer, and early autumn call for prettily tidied ornamental gardens, now’s the time to let them be! As the ...

But not to Marcello Mangano, director of the Phillip Alampi Beneficial Insect Rearing Laboratory (PABIL). And for that, all of us in this state we’re in should be grateful. Mangano leads a team ...

Pests sheltering in debris and soil include flea beetles, potato beetles, bean beetles, allium leaf miners, squash vine borers — the list goes ... and protecting beneficial insects over the ...

I refuse to join the list of grumpy preachers ... Their argument is that the leaves provide food and shelter to beneficial insects and other wildlife. Then, when they break down, the leaves ...

To the casual observer, the motivations that drive insect behaviors may appear quite simple ... A more active cicada—one that’s interacting with lots of other cicadas—is likely beneficial for a fungus ...

Milkweed and wildflowers may soon be a common sight growing around cornfields in an effort to help increase biodiversity in row crop farming. Researchers at Cornell University are working on seed ...