Using this method instead of chemical pesticides can help protect other insects and animals such as bees and birds. Gardener ...

Don’t be too quick to get out the spray because pests like aphids and whiteflies can be food for beneficial insects which are ...

sweet alyssum has been planted within vegetable beds for several years to attract and support beneficial insects. Alyssum is inexpensive, easy to grow, low growing and compact (so it doesn’t compete ...

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

Aphids on every garden vegetable: Cluster of small, soft-bodied insects on buds and growth tips (gray, black, pink, green, ...

NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge sought sustainable solutions for feeding astronauts on long missions. Interstellar Lab's ...

“Insect pressure can be tougher in the fall ... “Some things will tolerate a light frost, but those summer veggies will not,” Spoonemore says. To shield plants in the ground, you can ...

According to Raymond Cloyd, entomology professor at Kansas State University, there was a bad infestation of fall armyworms in ...

These insects have hairy wings that make them resemble ... decomposing fruits or vegetables, or paper products, regularly cleaning up and properly storing fruit and vegetables can help reduce ...

Grist reports on how, as global temperatures rise and seasons shift, bees and other pollinators are missing critical ...