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, ...

Be a friend to bees and other beneficial insects. Here, blooming buckwheat keeps bees busy. We often get calls asking where home gardeners can buy these beneficial insects. However, to prevent ...

For most humans, ants are a nuisance. But while you may fret about them munching on your meal, according to a new study, ants actually might help to protect our food from other insect pests. In a new ...

Harmful insect pests can cause billions of dollars’ worth of damage to food and livestock and transmit diseases such as malaria or the Zika virus. Finding ways to effectively control these insect ...

CHICAGO, Jan. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- After conducting in-depth research, including insect and vermin statistics from throughout the United States, EcoShield Pest Solutions have just released ...

DALLESPORT, Wash. — Folklore suggests that garlic keeps vampires away. It also works against the invasive insect spotted wing drosophila, said Bridget Hatfield, a research scientist with Kemin Crop ...

Farmers and vineyard owners have a new weapon in their pest management arsenal. A commonly used parasitoid, or parasitic insect that kills its host, has proven to be quite effective in the control of ...

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The problem of insect pests is not a new one, and there are many historical examples of the devastation they can inflict on both human health and agriculture worldwide. Over time, various efforts have ...

Creamy-colored and just a couple of centimeters long, the cotton bollworm doesn’t look like much. But around the world, this highly mobile moth has farmers breaking out in a sweat. Females can lay ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird ...