Biological control using an insect’s natural enemies is one of the simplest and most effective strategies gardeners use to ...

Ants are often an early sign of the presence of aphids on a plant because they protect aphids from their natural enemies.

So Niedermayer’s decision to order a batch of 200 ladybird eggs to her home, which she proceeded to store in the fridge until ...

From freaky spiders to smelly stink bugs, here are the most common house bugs to be aware of, how to identify them, and where ...

There are three major types of diseases that affect blue spruce trees: needlecasts, tip blights, and canker diseases. The two ...

With a few pieces of wood, natural reeds and a passion for protecting pollinators, Hermiston Girl Scout Zoey Griffith earned ...

The Butterfly’s Evil Spell was the first play written by twentieth-century playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Drawing much of its inspiration from the works of Yeats and Maeterlinck, the plot ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Many plants in Texas landscapes are suitable hosts for aphids, including bedding plants, ash, barberry, boxelder, crape myrtle, jasmine, flowering almond, gardenia, hibiscus, hydrangea, mountain ash, ...

While it isn’t toxic enough to actually kill a cow, the humans who have been stung by them have experienced such intense pain that, as the story goes, the wasp could easily kill a cow. I’ve been stung ...

Entrepreneurs and makers Derrick On and Koh Chong Hui of Okdodoo offer thousands of musical box ornaments (at least according ...