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To boost your garden’s ladybug population to control pests naturally, an expert warns against a common mistake.
Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...
Gardeners have used catnip as an insect repellant for many years, but does it keep all bugs away? Find out if it is effective ...
Beneficial Insectary is the only large insectary that has production in the United States (There are a few smaller specialist ...
Plants that attract these beneficial predators include vetch, alfalfa, corn, and crimson clover. Natives like elderberry, ...
Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that ...
When creepy crawlies find their way into your home, grabbing a shoe or a bottle of bug spray is a natural response. But what ...
Everyone knows how valuable bees are to your garden because they are pollinating your flowers. But they’re not the only ...
A list of alien ladybird (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) species to Europe was prepared and the history and circumstances of their introductions were determined. Currently there are 12 alien ladybird ...
As Lopez explained, if larvae were confined to roots, treatments might be applied to the soil, but it’s not as easy when the beetles are scattered in branches. While it can be clear the beetles ...
The provincial government has contracted a landscaping company to begin spray treatments in the St. John’s region targeting the larvae of the invasive Japanese beetle. The insect can have serious ...