State authorities announced a 77-square-mile quarantine this week after five Mexican fruit flies were detected in La Mesa, ...

While native insects—even those we don’t love such as mosquitoes, biting flies, and ants have roles to play in our eco-system, invasive insects are a different story. These are species that have ...

These golden blooms are a common sight in a vegetable garden because they’re so good at keeping pests away. Marigolds ( Tagetes) are known to repel nematodes, whiteflies, squash bugs, aphids, thrips, ...

Plants are constantly on guard. Their roots are equipped with molecular alarm systems that detect invading microbes and trigger immune responses. Yet beneficial soil fungi routinely enter living root ...

"That’s a bummer!" Housesitter makes a troubling discovery while watching over neighbor's garden: 'It was bad' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Most gardeners reach for the spray bottle the moment they spot a pest. But that reflex may be doing more harm than good, ...

Gardeners are being urged to get rid of a common garden pest which can cause untold chaos in your garden or greenhouse this ...

You can use this non-toxic pest control method on all kinds of plants ...

Here is spring, and it feels great. The wildflowers are here. Winter deciduous trees and shrubs are blooming and leafing out.