Start with a cleanup of plant debris and weeds from last season, but take steps to ensure our native bee population isn’t disturbed.

The western flower thrips — an invasive insect that’s not much bigger than a pinhead — takes a huge bite out of agriculture around the world, racking up billions of dollars’ worth of damage on a wide ...

Here's how to identify the insects eating your garden leaves by the evidence they leave behind. If leafcutter bees are damaging your plants, you will find very neat semi-circles cut out of the leaf ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various eco-friendly pest management strategies, you will encourage songbirds, ...

February generally does not conjure up images of wildflowers in the Midwest; however, one species is uniquely adapted to flowering in the latter half of winter. Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus ...

Barriers of lightweight floating row covers protect against cabbage worms, Japanese and bean beetles, cucumber beetles, squash bugs, and squash vine borers on susceptible plants. Just cover the ...

Cabbage is a cruciferous vegetable, with potential health benefits from the intake of these types (cabbage, as well as broccoli, kale, and others) including a lower risk of diabetes, cardiovascular ...

A cabbage worm feeding on mustard greens. Photo courtesy of MelindaMyers.com. You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate ...

Greenhouse Grower recently reached out to Janna Beckerman, Ph.D., Ornamentals Technical Specialist-Green Solutions Team at Envu Environmental Sciences, to learn more about how greenhouse growers are ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the ...

Thrips are tiny, sap-sucking insects that can cause significant damage to plants, both indoors and out. These slender, rice-shaped pests feed on plant juices and lay their eggs on or inside leaves.