"Now my tomatoes are truly pest-proofed." Expert gardener shares easy method for keeping pests away from tomato plants: 'Very informative' first appeared on The Cool Down.

When the summer sun shines into the living room, many windows are open or ajar: the ideal entryway for the common housefly! For this article, myHOMEBOOK looked into how to prevent the pest from ...

Controlling soybean insects this fall makes spring management more effective. Learn how to combat soybean aphid and bean leaf ...

"Stink bugs, in particular the brown marmorated stink bug, can be devastating to tree fruit,” says Blaauw. These pests feed ...

Of the many insect species that visit a vegetable garden, a small fraction are pests. Slugs, aphids, cabbage loopers, and ...

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for ...

Looking to boost the health of your vegetable garden? Consider adding annual flowering plants that will attract beneficial insects to help support and protect your plants from pests.

Other beneficial insects are being reared to address invasive plants like mile-a-minute and Japanese knotweed; and non-native invasive insects like Mexican bean beetle and brown marmorated stink bugs.

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

The insects eat other insects by piercing them with their beak- or straw-like mouthparts and then sipping out their body fluids. A warning to people – these insects will try to stab you if handled, so ...