It can sometimes be difficult to discern what's exactly wrong with your plants, but if you're noticing small white bumps on the leaves, this may be the culprit.

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission has recommended the state government to adopt Black Soldier Fly (BSF) bioconversion technology for solid waste ...

The coconut scale insect (CSI), an invasive pest that causes low yield, have infested more trees in the Visayas and Mindanao, ...

As this is the time of year when Aloe vera is in bloom, the story of how this plant arrived in our hemisphere is worth telling. Native to the rocky soil of the southern Arabian Peninsula — Saudi ...

A popular product used by home fruit-tree growers in days past was a spray known as “dormant oil.” Gardeners would apply the spray to leafless trees in late winter to kill overwintering bugs and bug ...

Nearly 90 percent of insect and arachnid species in North America lack conservation status, leaving major gaps in biodiversity protection.

Australia is a megadiverse country, rich with endemic plants and animals which are found nowhere else on Earth. In reality, biodiversity is not simply a tally of species but a web of interactions that ...

A provocative new international study published in Austral Ecology warns the massive "broadcast baiting" campaign currently ...

For nearly a decade, Dani F. Baker has been growing, sharing and advising others about the “edible forest” method of gardening. Four years ago, her award-winning book, “The Home-Scale ...

From venomous ants to zombie wasps, these insect predators deploy some of the grisliest hunting strategies in the natural ...

Hose-end sprayers are great for large lawn areas. Pump sprayers give you better control over where the spray goes and would be better for smaller lawns that have numerous beds of shrubs and flowers.

Insects that siphon plant sap have straw-like, piercing-sucking mouthparts. Symptoms of damage by these insects may present as general yellowing, wilting, or the presence of many small dark spots ...