Summer is when these insects become active and damage your plants. While most plants can sustain minimal damage, try to stay ahead of these culprits.

Monarch butterflies depend on the milkweed plant as the only food source for its larvae, but the monarchs benefit from the ...

Planting mint near your lettuce can help repel slugs from the vegetable. Slugs dislike mint's aroma and the herb attracts ...

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that lives in spider webs, eating the bugs that get stuck - including the spider that ...

Thousands of invasive caterpillars which are threatening native ash trees have been spotted at locations across Belfast. The ...

You won't have to wait long to attract a range of pollinators to your yard with any of these rapidly-growing trees. They'll ...

Spiders are often referred to as insects, but this is incorrect. Although spiders and insects belong to the same massive ...

Aphids, which are probably the most common insect in gardens, are small, usually light green — though there are black, gray ...

The box tree moth is the latest invasive species to create problems for Southeast Michigan, which already wrestles with dozens of other non-native plants and animals. About five years ago, the box ...

Both insects are known to defoliate trees ... helicopters and two fixed-wing aircraft later this month after the leaves are present enough to hold the spray for the caterpillars to eat. The applied ...

Most caterpillars snack on leaves and plants but not this one ... This caterpillar doesn’t just eat bugs. It wears them. Using silk it spins from its body, the caterpillar builds a small ...

Insects stumble ... two bone collector caterpillars, with one attacking the other by biting a hole in the side of its silken cocoon, entering inside and killing and eating it.