In addition to brightening up your yard, hummingbirds are useful for pest control. There's one common insect in particular ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) has confirmed the detection of a new invasive insect in ...

Backyard Farmer looks at insect pest management while protecting the beneficials and checks out a greenhouse fig tree. Host Kim Todd & the Backyard Farmer panelists will answer landscape, lawn and ...

The sterile insect technique (SIT) involves the mass-rearing and sterilization using radiation of a target pest. Sterile males are then released over defined areas, where they mate with wild ...

Bridget Hatfield, a research scientist with Kemin Crop Technologies, talks about a garlic oil-based treatment that can repel and disrupt mating for spotted wing drosophila, an invasive insect ...

It demonstrates why we are seriously concerned with the discovery of this pest in Indiana, the farthest west in the United States that it has been confirmed. Cliff Sadof, Purdue entomologist, and ...

The traveler was headed to a major cherry-producing area in Wisconsin with the bag of fruit containing the pest that could ...

Above: A group of the late stage 4th instar nymphs of spotted lanternfly. Photo taken by Vince Burkle (DNR DEPP). Last August, I wrote about an invasive insect pest new to Indiana that was found in ...