If your house is starting to resemble a low-budget Hitchcock knock-off starring little orange spotted bugs, you might have ...

Cute and colorful, ladybugs (more correctly termed lady beetles) are iconic symbols of a healthy garden. They help pollinate numerous species of flowers and are beloved by gardeners for their ...

Does it ever seem that you look at one of the plants in your garden and it’s totally fine, and then the next time you look at it, it’s covered with aphids? That could be because aphid populations can ...

Ladybugs protect your garden by eating pests like aphids, mealybugs, and spider mites. Store-bought ladybugs often die or leave quickly, and collecting them harms native populations at both ends. You ...

Ladybugs may be the cutest insects around, but they don’t start off that way. Also called lady beetles or ladybirds, they pop out of their eggs as prickly mini-monsters with an insatiable hunger for ...

We watched as the ladybug excreted a fluid from its pea-sized body. One of the aphids must have disliked the smell, since it distanced itself and refused to move closer. The other aphids crawled away, ...

Is it too late to plant tomato and pepper plants? No, it is not too late for these plants to produce a good crop, since we are only a few weeks past the usual planting time. Many plant by Mother's Day ...

It's time I confessed. And so I will tell you the story of the time I killed some bugs and wasted my money. It was after we bought our house and had a yard of our own for the first time, ever. You ...