Parasitic wasps are especially beneficial insects because they live on garden pests like cabbage loopers and tomato ... Asian ...

When most people think of insects in their garden, they usually think of annoying pests that eat away at their hard-earned crops. While it is true that there are many garden-damaging insects out there ...

In only one day, Japanese beetles have decimated a plum tree and ... I will have little left in my garden and landscape if this continues through thru July and August. While I’m not a fan ...

which we learned many gardeners regard as essential players in controlling Japanese beetles and other garden pests. We were surprised by some of the results. For example, we suspected gardeners ...

The Prior Lake Community Garden spent much of the summer under siege. The invader: the Japanese beetle. The Japanese beetle is a bug a little bigger than a pea, with a shiny, bronze-green carapace ...

Did you know there are 45,000 kinds of beetle, making them the largest order in the animal kingdom? They prefer the garden but sometimes come inside to shelter from bad weather. Often they hide in ...

“Ladybugs, which are beneficial garden insects, love to feast on aphids and can be your best defense against those small armies of insects,” says Mitchell. You can purchase live ladybugs for ...

The Washington state Department of Agriculture is expanding eight-fold the area of private and public land in the Tri-Cities it wants to spray pesticide to fight highly destructive Japanese be ...