Whether you have an invisible pest terrorizing your garden or have caught some bugs red-handed, you're probably looking for a way to stop them. If organic and easy are two words you'd like to be part ...

These beneficial insects are “good guy” bugs that help control pests naturally and pollinate flowers. Plant pests, such as snails, slugs, and tomato hornworms, can wreak havoc on ornamental and edible ...

Garden pest control feels like an endless and ineffective chore sometimes. There's nothing more disappointing than coming out to your garden in the morning and finding only the destructive remains of ...

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

Let me first take the opportunity to wish everyone a prosperous new year in the garden. And to start off the year, I’d like to help you with the age-old problem of dealing with bugs. Here in Costa ...

Learn how certain flies, wasps, spiders, and other beneficial garden insects can keep garden pest populations in check and strengthen your backyard ecosystem. Our gardens are home to many natural ...

It’s the beginning of 2025 and the cusp of another year of gardening. Gardening has seasons where plants grow best, flowers bloom, vegetables provide their fruit, and pests invade your garden. Many of ...

When cold weather sets in, it’s tempting to assume pest problems go into hibernation along with the garden. Unfortunately, ...

As a long-term advocate for organic growing, time and time again I come up across the same misconceptions about organic pest control and what it really involves. These myths can easily get in the way ...

Biological control is the management of pests and their damage by the beneficial action of parasites (parasitoids), pathogens, and predators. These beneficial organisms, collectively, are named ...

Magpies and pigeons can cause serious trouble in gardens, but pest control experts have shared a simple pruning method to ...