Some things for your garden are worth the money, but others, such as certain pest-control methods and fertilizers, are only ...

Across soggy British gardens, slugs and snails shred seedlings faster than copper tape can cope. A simple band of gritty ...

Photo Credit: iStock A routine check of a pie pumpkin plant turned up a cluster of tiny, shiny brown eggs hidden beneath a ...

Few gardening frustrations match the sinking feeling of walking out on a June morning to find your hostas riddled with ragged holes. The culprit is almost always there in spirit, even if the slug ...

A notoriously harmful pest is once again active in Kansas, threatening your lawn and vegetable gardens along with your flowers, plants and trees. The culprit is the Japanese beetle — and the adults ...

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The European blister beetle lays thousands of eggs in the spring. When they hatch, the bright-orange larvae shimmy up flower stems and sit in clumps, waiting for passing solitary bees to latch on to ...

Japanese scarab beetles (Popillia japonica) are a significant pest and strictly quarantined outside Japan. Female beetles attract mates with a mating hormone, japonilure, but males only respond to one ...

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts Sceptobius beetles groom ants to ...

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

Colorado leaders are sounding the alarm on a growing pine beetle outbreak that experts say could kill millions of trees and significantly increase wildfire risk near some of the Centennial State's ...