Annual Japanese beetle treatments to eradicate the invasive pest are starting across more Washington communities.

A weekend gardening project in Waipahu turned into a full‑on bug scare when a Waialua woman says she opened a fresh bag of ...

Annual Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) treatments to eradicate the invasive Japanese beetle are starting this week. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is conducting Japanese ...

Maggot-like vine weevils feed voraciously on the roots and crowns of plants, especially those in pots of peat-based compost ...

We often see insects and small creatures as unwanted guests in our homes, something to be chased away or feared. These are ...

A book I fell in love with when I was a girl was “The Secret Garden”, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. One of the parts I loved ...

A team at Kobe University has discovered a previously overlooked dynamic between the Japanese red elder plant and a group of ...

Japanese beetles are an unwelcome sight, but many other garden beetles are good bugs worth welcoming to your yard.

Voracious wood-boring beetles continue to rapidly destroy the snow gum forests of the Australian Alps as climate ...

Spring sunlight sparks excitement above ground, but the real action begins under the soil. While gardeners celebrate the return of green shoots and fresh planting plans, an entire underground world ...

In addition to being an effective treatment for grubs, this remedy is environmentally-friendly, biodegradable, and safe for humans if used correctly.

A study from Kobe University has uncovered a surprising partnership between Japanese red elder plants and Heterhelus beetles. The beetles pollinate the flowers but also lay eggs inside the developing ...