The bright contrast of yellow and black on a spider may make it look very scary, but most do more good than harm. Here's how to identify friends and foes.

There are remedies that can rid veggies of common insects if applied at the first signs of activity, Don Kinzler writes.

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

Adult June bugs are called chafers because they eat leaves and flowers of trees and shrubs — they have gained a reputation for ruining gardens and being a nuisance especially in groups, according to ...

Angelina worked to earn her Gold Award in Girl Scouts by using black-margined loosestrife beetle to reduce Purple Loosestrife ...

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 7 Creepy Crawlies You Want in Your Garden. You'll want to welcome ...

The further south you go, the bigger the bugs. Heat has a dramatic effect on the growth rate of some species, and North ...

With its ample vegetation and hot, humid temperatures, Alabama is the perfect nesting ground for a wide variety of creatures. Suffice it to say that there are also some pretty big insects lurking in ...

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