If you've planted tomatoes before, or if you've spent any time gardening at all, you know tomatoes are a magnet for pests.

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Plants that attract these beneficial predators include vetch, alfalfa, corn, and crimson clover. Natives like elderberry, ...

Not all bugs are bad. In fact, some can benefit your garden. So don't be so quick to try to get rid of every insect you see ...

When creepy crawlies find their way into your home, grabbing a shoe or a bottle of bug spray is a natural response. But what ...

A phids are one pest that make every gardener sigh as they return continuously. They're extremely common and don't ...

Every bug has a place in the garden, whether it's feeding wildlife, helping improve your soil, or eating bugs they could ...

Encouraging beneficial bugs is a natural, eco-friendly way to build a resilient, thriving garden. Whether you’re releasing ...

Aphids are also rapid reproducers, often asexually, leading to large colonies in short order. Ladybugs and ladybug larvae are ...

Other natural enemies of aphids include adult ladybugs, lacewings, syrphid fly larvae, soldier beetles and tiny parasitic wasps.

The larvae of ladybugs, minute pirate bugs, lacewings and syrphid flies eat aphids and other pest insects voraciously. And they have no side effects in your yard.

The pesticide, called neonicotinoid, is problematic because monarch butterfly larvae eat milkweed plants, she said. For the study, Krischik and horticulture professor Mary Rogers fed four species of ...