OK, take a deep breath folks, the garden season is in full swing. After several weeks of cool and rainy weather the plants and the weeds are waking up and so are the bugs and diseases. So, what do you ...

Many people believe that all insects are harmful pests, but the fact is that most insects areharmless and some are actually beneficial. There are nearly one million known species of insects on the ...

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 ...

Assorted bugs reach their crescendo in the summer landscape, causing varying levels of alarm to gardeners nervous at seeing swarms near the plants. While a few bugs can do serious plant harm and even ...

You're in your garden and notice a beautiful, new-to-you flower that has popped up somewhere unexpected — pull it or leave it? Or perhaps an unfamiliar garden pest has ravaged your tomato plants. Or ...

Get rid of those tiny white pests that may appear on your houseplants When you find tiny white bugs on or in the soil of your ...

Sign up to receive the Future Tense newsletter every other Saturday. For the first few days, I ignored the teeny bugs crawling around my bathroom window sill at night ...