Ants can find very small cracks and crevices to get into a home. The best ways to prevent them deciding to move in is by ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Ladybugs, though popular, were surprising underachievers in pear orchards. Of the 38 collected, only 17% had spider mite DNA ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various eco-friendly pest management strategies, you will encourage songbirds, ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various eco-friendly pest management strategies, you will encourage songbirds, ...

a single ladybug can eat up to 5,000 aphids in its lifetime—but ladybugs do more than that. Beyond aphids, ladybugs also hunt a variety of small plant pests, including mealybugs, hard-bodied scale, ...

“The beetles do make a difference,” says Hans Cornelissen at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Researchers already knew that, by killing trees, insect infestations in forests ...

We’re about a week away from the official first day of spring, which means—you guessed it—the annual return of aphids and the other pesky insects gardeners dread. This, in addition to the ...

International Women’s Day on March 8th, 2025, is a recognized day to be discriminatory all over the world. For the purpose of this story, I’ll be profiling the best female chefs in Los Angeles in a ...