When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

Protect your lawn from chinch bugs and mole crickets in midsummer heat with early diagnosis and targeted insecticide spot ...

Hot weather brings chinch bugs that can destroy your lawn in a week. Here is how to spot and treat the damage.

A simple change in the choice of grass varieties for many lawns in the United States could be a key tool for fending off fall armyworm infestations, according to new research. Their tests found that ...

Chinch bugs are common pest species found in lawns, parks, and cemeteries. Adult chinch bugs are black-colored with white markings on the wings, while immature chinch bugs (nymphs) lack wings and have ...

The June bug is also called the May beetle or June beetle. There are over 100 species of June bugs, and all of them start their lives as white grubs once they hatch from their eggs. These grubs can ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- After hiking in Oregon, a University of Oregon plant biologist suggests, people may want to brush off their shoes and comb through their dogs in an effort to curb the spread of an ...

As winter phases into spring across the U.S., gardeners are laying in supplies and making plans. Meanwhile, as the weather warms, common garden insects such as bees, beetles and butterflies will ...

Two female parasitoid wasps depositing their eggs in the larvae of the gall midge hidden in a reed shoot. The tiny gall midge larvae feed within plant tissue creating bumps, known as “plant galls”.

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