Good bugs pollinate our food crops, enrich and fertilize the soil, eat our garbage and provide food for wildlife.

Protect your garden with Integrated Pest Management—natural, effective strategies to keep pests at bay and veggies thriving.

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

A recent study highlights the importance of the definition of "invasive" species and how the public perceives managing them.

The effectiveness of average weekly inundative releases of female Eretmocerus eremicus (evaluated in 2 greenhouses) and Encarsia formosa Beltsville strain (evaluated in 2 greenhouses) per plant for ...

Preserving strips of native vegetation beside avocado orchards gives insects a buffet of wild pollen when blossoms are scarce, doubling their plant menu and boosting their resilience. Using ...

Tools to address PFAS pollution are limited. Here's what researchers are learning about how these chemicals travel through ...

Anxiety, the psychological and physiological state characterized by an anticipation of potential threats and a heightened ...

While much of the work done in the garden happens in the spring, that doesn’t mean growers can coast through summer.

Watch out for this highly destructive garden pest which likes to hide in plant pots and destroy your plants - luckily, experts say there are several ways to banish them ...

If you’re one of the folks who looks forward to pumpkins every fall, the long summer wait can be tough. For farmers, the ...

The USDA proposes to turn loose tiny mites from Eurasia to gnaw on that symbol and scourge of the West — Russian thistle, also known as tumbleweeds, which also originated […] ...