While not toxic to people or most animals, pesticides to protect spruce and fir trees against budworm could also hurt the ...

Summer should be a time of relaxing and enjoying the outdoors. Unfortunately, once again, our community is dealing with an infestation of midges. Our office has received many complaints from ...

A government-funded campaign has begun spraying insecticides and biological agents on 240,000 acres of Maine's North Woods infested with spruce budworm, a voracious forest pest that killed millions of ...

CSIRO scientists helped develop this insect-resistant cotton variety, using a gene derived from a soil bacteria, Bacillus ...

SIDDIPET: Industrial agriculture’s addiction to monocultures and pesticides has left farms sterile and ecosystems broken.

These are pests of the cool, wet times of spring and early summer. They hang out in moist, mulched beds and they come out to ...

A new study from Michigan State University shows that planting too much genetically modified corn designed to fight off a ...

Each of the landscapes are beautiful in their own right, but one particular standout is a home garden in midtown that ...

Mosquitoes can ruin your outdoor fun, but with a few simple steps, you can get rid of mosquitoes in your yard and stop these ...

Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce ...

(Fogging) sprays don’t just target mosquitoes. They also kill beneficial insects like bees, butterflies, ladybugs and ...

In assessing nine species of ground beetles, a study finds threats to beetle populations from sublethal effects with ...