If your plants' leaves are looking lacy—or you're seeing patches of dead grass in your lawn—Japanese beetles may be to blame.

Use floating row covers over seedlings and susceptible crops such as eggplants, which can be decimated by flea beetles. Keep ...

There are several crops that can prevent flea beetles from taking up residence in your garden, including catnip, basil, thyme ...

Good bugs pollinate our food crops, enrich and fertilize the soil, eat our garbage and provide food for wildlife.

Japanese beetles are a non-native scarab beetle species originally from East Asia. While their shiny green and copper shells might be eye catching, their appetite is destructive. “Some of the top ...

Beets make great companions for tomatoes. The two enjoy a mutualistic symbiotic relationship; tomatoes shield beets from heat ...

In the case of both aphids and Japanese beetles, spraying with a broad-spectrum insecticide can do more harm than good. These ...

Summertime in the garden is set to the tune of cicadas in the trees and can take on a sometimes dreamy feeling in the heat. We need an ice-cold drink ...

It’s summer, so naturally the June beetles are out at night in full force. What do they do at night? Feed on your plants of ...