Here are several common, good-for-your-garden insects that might surprise you: ...

Fortunately, marigolds can be planted near your zucchini as a companion plant that can help deter this annoying insect and serve ... and can destroy your plants, aphids are the enemy of gardeners.

First detected in the U.S. in Dallas in 2004, crape myrtle bark scale is a sucking insect that feeds on the sap of plants. It ...

In a new study published in Ecology Letters, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel, Germany, report on the influence of an endophytic fungus of the ...

The list of insect pollinators is long and includes many different species ... The orchid Cypripedium subtropicum (which is native to southeast Asia) mimics aphids to lure hoverflies. The orchid's ...

A GARDENING expert has revealed the one flower you need to plant now — claiming it is “better than insect repellent” when it ...

Insect and spider bites can cause small lacerations, swelling, skin discoloration, blisters, and other symptoms. Home treatment may relieve symptoms but some bites may need medical attention ...

Some insects will avoid the cold altogether and migrate to warmer temperatures such as the monarch butterfly, armyworms, ...

Many phloem-feeding bugs (e.g., aphids), on the other hand ... However, in order to obtain prey items an insect must be able to locate, capture, consume, and digest the prey.

Be they squash bugs, squash vine borers, cucumber beetles, aphids, Japanese beetles or other ... involves observing a particular insect pest, noting its life stages, and then calculating the ...