The larvae of lacewings, of which there are thousands of species, devour just about everything in their path, experts said. De Agostini via Getty Images The delicate-looking flying insects could be ...

I should have realized that this would be the “year of the aphid” back in March when I found my pepper starts were being attacked by the little pests. By mid-June I was found that many people are ...

Friendly insects come to the rescue; it’s all the more reason to avoid pesticides, so natural predators can go after the real pests Natural predators in the garden are our least expensive, most time ...

Does it ever seem that you look at one of the plants in your garden and it’s totally fine, and then the next time you look at it, it’s covered with aphids? That could be because aphid populations can ...

You can find Part 1 of this series here. We ended the last blog post with the discovery of a clump of ladybug eggs on a stem of aphid-infested goldenrod. A ladybug laid her eggs on an aphid-infested ...

Gardeners, another week has quickly passed, and we are well into gardening season! Last week we discussed ‘pests’ which prey upon gardeners beloved tomatoes. So, it is only fitting that this week, we ...

Ants farm aphids. It's weird yet fascinating. And a bit like a miniature horror movie. But it's a nightmare for gardeners.

We all welcome the beauty of butterflies, bees and ladybirds – but there are some less well-known and frankly alarming-looking insects which are also beneficial to our gardens. Anton Rosenfeld, ...

Above: lady beetles are being released into Purdue greenhouses as a biological control agent. Photo by Purdue University. Some insects are pests, but not all insects are bad. Overwhelmingly, the ...