Adding helpful organisms to your garden is an easy, natural way to fight harmful grubs without using chemicals. Beneficial nematodes and parasitic wasps attack grubs underground, helping protect plant ...

Foresters are using parasitoids to reduce the spread of the emerald ash borer beetle, following the lead of many states to ...

The extensive death of ash trees in Western New York is creating a decline in emerald ash borer populations for the time being, and the release of wasps that prey on the invasive insect may limit the ...

A few of Indiana's tiniest transplants — invasive worms, moths and beetles from overseas — have made massive changes to Indiana's ecosystems over the past several decades.

Netflix’s “Quarterback” season two offers an inside look at Jared Goff’s 2024-25 season with the Detroit Lions. As the Lions ...

Pest pros share all of their best and easy tricks to keep yellow jackets away from your home and yard this summer, so you don ...

The further south you go, the bigger the bugs. Heat has a dramatic effect on the growth rate of some species, and North ...

The visit of the 17-year cicadas isn't particularly long, but it can bring back memories of cicada summers from long ago.

Among the most common spiders found in and around the home, the shy grass spider (aka a funnel-web spider) builds dense, silk-lined webs/burrows to trap its insect victims. They’re also super fast ...

You may have noticed some new visitors to your garden. Large wasps digging burrows in the sand or congregating near shrubs. While intimidating to look at, these wasps are of little threat. What you ...

Most of what people hereabouts know as wasps are paper wasps, a few species of the Polistes genus. The routine red wasp here is one of those, Polistes carolina.

Ground wasps often build hidden nests in sunny, dry areas. Natural remedies like diatomaceous earth and homemade vinegar traps can effectively reduce wasp populations with minimal risk. Keeping your ...