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 ...

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

A new study shows that planting too much genetically modified corn designed to fight off a tough insect -- the corn rootworm -- especially in the eastern U.S. Corn Belt states may be causing more harm ...

The box tree moth is the latest invasive species to create problems for Southeast Michigan, which already wrestles with dozens of other non-native plants and animals. About five years ago, the box ...

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 moth may be the culprit of hydrangea leaves curling upward in your garden, but it’s not much to worry about.

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