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, ...

Learn how certain flies, wasps, spiders, and other beneficial garden insects can keep garden pest populations in check and strengthen your backyard ecosystem. Our gardens are home to many natural ...

CORVALLIS – You look around the garden and see aphids suck the life out of your rose buds, flea beetles chomp on the cauliflower and cabbage butterflies lay eggs that will turn into voracious ...

Insect netting can make a huge difference to your yard, but it's important to select the correct variety, keeping in mind which pests are damaging your plants.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

There are nearly 1 million known insect species on Earth, and just 2% of these insects are harmful to plants, animals or humans. Managing insects in the vegetable garden and home landscape requires an ...

As a former realtor, general contractor and greenhouse operator, Kristi has touched nearly all aspects of homeownership, from the foundation up. Today, Kristi is a full-time investing and real estate ...

Diatomaceous Earth has to come in contact with pests for it to actually work. DE is a general pesticide, meaning it can kill healthy pollinators and other beneficial insects if used haphazardly.

While some gardeners still think that any bug in the garden is a bad bug, change is in the air. Most plant-lovers now realize that insects and plants go hand-in-hand and that there are far more ...

Until fairly recently, the notion of “beneficial insects” was unheard of. Many of us grew up believing all bugs were bad, a problem to be solved with a quick spray of Raid. While some insects may ...