Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... They may not tweet you or invite you to their Facebook pages, but these five beneficial insects are among your garden’s BFFs: ground beetles, hover flies, ...

If you saw an insect that vaguely resembled a tiny alligator on one of your plants, would you think that perhaps you should remove it, squish it or run for the spray? You are most likely looking at ...

Gardeners preparing for autumn are likely to encounter a surge of ladybirds seeking shelter among foliage and debris. This abundance follows a bumper year for the beneficial insects, attributed to the ...

You know it’s springtime when animals start coming out of hibernation. That includes ladybugs that crawl out from their cozy winter hiding places. As you pointed out, ladybugs are actually a kind of ...

Anyone who’s starting to tidy up their garden in the next month is likely to see plenty of ladybirds on foliage and debris looking for nooks and crannies in which to shelter as autumn kicks in. It’s ...

Ladybugs love to snack on aphids and other pests. So people began importing an Asian species called the harlequin ladybird as natural pest control. But in their new environments, the harlequins wiped ...

Ladybugs may be the cutest insects around, but they don’t start off that way. Also called lady beetles or ladybirds, they pop out of their eggs as prickly mini-monsters with an insatiable hunger for ...