If you haven't had much success with houseplants in the past, it may be time to reconsider what you are trying to grow and ...

It’s common to find these tiny black bugs on plants where they feed and leave visible holes. They leave behind white spots and black droppings that can be mistaken for poppy seeds. Since thrips ...

They also aren’t known to cause damage to homes, although they may eat some garden plants and seedlings. Those bugs are probably earwigs—an earwig is a long black insect with what looks like ...

South Africa is unleashing weevils imported from the United States in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of Salvinia ...

Next time you’re outside, say a silent thanks for the many unsung insect pollinators helping to keep our ecosystems healthy.

Most fields held a few of them and a couple of fields had several hundred. Sloughs, too, were crowded with them. There they ...

Named for their distinctive hovering flight, stripey yellow-and-black hover flies (Syrphidae) are often mistaken for bees. Hover flies are potential pollinators of several native plants. The larvae of ...

Now is the time to redirect your child's attention from a glowing screen to the endlessly fascinating outdoors.

Yamhill County Master Gardeners and OSU Spring into Gardening: 8:45 a.m.-4 p.m. Sign up for gardening classes on flowers, ...

Okay, so not everybody enjoys sharing their yard with tenants of a creepy-crawly nature. They don't communicate like dogs ...

Garden maintenance: Discussion about tasks related to garden maintenance, including cutting down plants and dealing with ... that enables us effectively to bug ourselves and get a print-out ...

The Dark Side of the Ocean: New Giant Sea Bug Species Named After Darth Vader ... 2024 — A new species of black, slender moray eel has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy ...