Thirty-five percent of all households in America, or about 42 million households, are growing food at home or in a community garden. That's up 17 percent in the past five years, according to a 2016 ...

You can find Part 1 of this series here. We ended the last blog post with the discovery of a clump of ladybug eggs on a stem of aphid-infested goldenrod. A ladybug laid her eggs on an aphid-infested ...

Everyone has seen ladybugs in the garden and in the house. Ladybugs are those cute red bugs with black dots on their bodies. In the house, they are just trying to find a warm place, often in the ...

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 ...

If a ladybug's life were a horror film, this is how it would start: Scary string music. A close-up of the green-eyed face of a wasp. The sudden pierce of a stinger. The screen goes dark. Next, an ...

Does it ever seem that you look at one of the plants in your garden and it’s totally fine, and then the next time you look at it, it’s covered with aphids? That could be because aphid populations can ...

Pest expert warns of a ‘death spiral’ ladybug invasion that can cause havoc for homeowners. Here’s what you need to know.

Most ladybugs in North America are beneficial as both adults and larvae, feeding primarily on aphids. If aphids are limited, ladybug adults and larvae may feed on the eggs of moths and beetles, mites, ...

What’s known as the ladybug in the United States is called the ladybird beetle in the U.K. or lady beetles elsewhere. Entomologists prefer those names because ladybugs are not “true” bugs, in the ...

Q. How can I identify ladybug eggs and larvae? I purchased a container of ladybugs about 3 weeks ago and released them on my roses. I no longer see any ladybugs but I do see some other bugs crawling ...

While doing fall cleanup of annuals, I ran across a few ladybugs that appeared to be sleeping. Fall temps had rebounded to a pleasant 60-70 degrees, so it made me wonder if they were hibernating. Who ...