Parasitoid insects, unlike parasites, kill their hosts by consuming them during their larval stage. Most parasitoids are small wasps and flies, and they infect a wide range of insects and arachnids.

Do insects give you the heebie-jeebies? While some species can cause problems for our vegetable and ornamental plants, the vast majority have either beneficial or benign roles in the environment.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Insects — they’re everywhere! With nearly 1 million named species, they make up about 90% of all species of animals on the planet and more than half of all ...

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) combines various methods to control garden pests and diseases, minimizing risks. Cultural controls involve good gardening practices to prevent pest and disease issues.

A healthy garden attracts more than pollinators. It can bring California quail, too. Discover how these social birds help ...

Winter feels like a reset button for the garden, a clean slate where everything troublesome gets wiped out by cold. Yet raised beds often keep secrets through frost, snow, and ice, and some of them ...

With the arrival of warm weather also comes the arrival of summer's menaces: bugs. While some people might detest insects just for being so buggy, for gardeners, each year might feel like another new ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In late August, there is a vast assortment of insect action in our gardens, and it is worth a listen and a watch to see what is happening. The cicadas are ...