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, ...

There are nearly 1 million known insect species on Earth, and just 2% of these insects are harmful to plants, animals or humans. Managing insects in the vegetable garden and home landscape requires an ...

CORVALLIS – You look around the garden and see aphids suck the life out of your rose buds, flea beetles chomp on the cauliflower and cabbage butterflies lay eggs that will turn into voracious ...

Flowers are in full bloom, the vegetable garden is showing promise, and—what the heck is eating my stuff? All that lush greenery and those tender, fragrant flowers are a magnet for many common garden ...

In last week’s article, I focused on weeds as unwanted garden guests. This week, we’ll focus on insect pests, and next week, diseases. As you know, many insect pests may affect garden plants. Since I ...

These beneficial insects are “good guy” bugs that help control pests naturally and pollinate flowers. Plant pests, such as snails, slugs, and tomato hornworms, can wreak havoc on ornamental and edible ...

Eliminate pests and garden insects by learning how to attract toads to your garden for insect control. Originally published in 1983. The dog may be “man’s best friend” . . .but if that person is a ...

Gardeners can protect their plants from common pests like aphids, whiteflies, and caterpillars using natural methods. Instead ...

Until fairly recently, the notion of “beneficial insects” was unheard of. Many of us grew up believing all bugs were bad, a problem to be solved with a quick spray of Raid. While some insects may ...

While some gardeners still think that any bug in the garden is a bad bug, change is in the air. Most plant-lovers now realize that insects and plants go hand-in-hand and that there are far more ...