Few things are as disheartening to a gardener than seeing unwelcome pests feasting on the literal fruits of your labor. The best insecticides for your vegetable garden target the bugs that are ...

TikTok gardener and educator Potted Gem (@potted_gem) posted a video of a recipe for a chili and garlic spray to keep pests away naturally. First, she chopped up a cayenne pepper and several cloves of ...

We have a cherry tree that gives us a lot of delicious cherries, but unfortunately we have found little worms in the fruit without any telltale signs on the outside of the fruit. What is this? What ...

In a recent study, researcher Anandasankar Ray at the University of California, Riverside, and his team employed machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to predict novel mosquito ...

Without honeybees we would have a lot less food on our tables. The large decline in the number of honeybees in Virginia and Tennessee in recent years could be compounded by the misuse of insecticides ...

New gardeners may not recall the relationship between flowers and the formation of produce. For virtually all above ground vegetables, flowers come first, then are pollinated by insects, wind or other ...

As the weather warms up, insect problems will be on the increase. But while many gardeners think that they immediately should get an insecticide and begin spraying when they see insects in their ...

Spring is in full swing. Plants are blooming and growing, and it’s a beautiful time of the year. It's easy to garden in the spring. The cooler temperatures and frequent rains create maintenance-free ...

After successfully organizing to register Lake Bluff as a Community Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation, a Lake Bluff nature group is joining broader efforts to push for state ...

I'm not an organic gardener, but as a former farm kid, I have a deep, abiding respect for Mother Nature. And for that reason, after 40 years of gardening, I'm resolving to swear off insecticides. That ...