Use a soil thermometer to help you know when to plant vegetables. Wait until the soil is consistently above 70 degrees to ...

If cutworms are the problem, farmers often reach for two types of chemical control, Gavloski said: diamides and pyrethroids.

Extension Office horticulture specialist Amanda Weidner writes about insects that are your allies in the garden.

Japanese beetles are an unwelcome sight, but many other garden beetles are good bugs worth welcoming to your yard.

Prevention: To prevent flea beetle infestations, remove potatoes and nightshade weeds from your garden to lower beetle ...

The small black beetle can cause huge damage in your garden and the real devastation is done beneath the soil.

By the time leaves start to wilt, the plant’s root system is usually gone and there’s no saving it. While most bugs are just ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or caterpillar — into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests.

A hybrid oilseed rape that has been bred with resilience against cabbage stem flea beetle could make the difference between crop success and failure when ...

Ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) are wood-boring insects studied as examples of fungus-insect symbiosis and for their success as invasive species. While most research on ...

scarab beetles, and leaf beetles. Yiu Vor finds them all fascinating. Yiu is chairman of the Hong Kong Entomological Society and a long-time fan of the bizarre, ferocious and beautiful world of ...

and found live Asian longhorned beetle larvae. It's the first time the insect has been seen in the Port Huron area since November 2021, officials said. "Our nation's agriculture industry is ...