Beneficial garden insects and bugs do a stellar job of helping plants grow and keeping natural ecosystems in check.

Origins Like flees and rats that carried the bubonic plague to Europe from Asia in the fourteenth century, two of the four ...

Don’t be too quick to get out the spray because pests like aphids and whiteflies can be food for beneficial insects which are ...

Keeping pests away from your lawn and garden can be a frustrating, ongoing battle. Fortunately, these plants can help you ...

Fall pests in South Carolina will soon come for your home and yard. Here are some of the worst and how to fight them off.

Physical presence in the garden is one of the most important tools in the gardener’s toolbox. But when we are on a vacation, this tool in our garden is obviously absent. It takes courage to go on ...

Roses grown in the right soil and conditions are more likely to be happy and healthy and less likely to get aphids. Aphids ...

From attracting beneficial insects to promoting biodiversity, here are some natural methods to reduce unwanted guests in your ...

Don’t let zucchini pests ruin your crops – learn to spot their presence and combat them quickly and effectively ...

“Once I started to look around I realised I had a lot of predatory wasps, and parasitic wasps and a lot of ladybirds and lacewings and it started this fascination where I started to take a lot ...

Dill is a cool weather plant that grows well in spring and autumn, as does spinach. Both love moist, rich soil, and dill's cheerful yellow flowers will attract ladybugs and green lacewings, which feed ...

We also employ beneficial bugs (ladybugs, praying mantises and lacewings) to keep our greenhouses clean of predators. Most people think the terms “organic” or “certified organic” means ...