News flash gardeners. We have a new, comprehensive resource to help manage bugs in the vegetable garden. Susan Mulvihill, my Spokesman-Review colleague and co-author with me of the “Northwest Garden’s ...

Wanting to get the most out of your greenhouse? In The Greenhouse Gardener’s Manual (Timber Press, 2014), author Roger Marshall provides information on how to choose, heat, irrigate and maintain your ...

According to Hodges, silverfish tend to invade your home in winter due to their love of damp, cold places. He cautions that ...

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, ...

Two new books can serve as guides for homeowners and gardeners coping with the pestilence of snakes, spiders, crabgrass, termites, bedbugs, hornworms and vine borers. Dead Snails Leave No Trails (Ten ...

A neighbor texted me this week asking for advice about controlling carpenter bees. She was hoping for an exterminator recommendation, but I gave her a simple, do-it-yourself solution that is easier on ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Beneficial insects are a gardener’s best friend. They break down into two basic groups: predators and parasites. Research shows that some plants, when ...

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme of the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture plays a key role in the dissemination of nuclear and related technology information ...

THE first edition of the author's “Insects Injurious to Staple Crops” was published ten years ago. The advances made during the past decade have been such that it was considered necessary to rewrite ...

Lizzy Lowe is on the board of the Australian Entomological Society. She has received funding from the American Arachnological Society and the NSW Linnean society. Cameron Webb and the Department of ...