Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients.

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

Are you tired of garden pests and want to reduce pesticide use? Certain plants can help manage insects in your garden. Beneficial insects help control pest populations by attracting predators that ...

From pests to root rot to other issues, tomatoes need TLC, but we asked the experts which are the best companion plants to ...

Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...

Washington's pollinators are critical to our state’s agriculture and can sometimes be used to help degraded ecosystems.

The ‘dog-vomit’ type you may have seen in your vegetable garden is called 'Fuligo septica' and is typically yellow or orange ...

The large size of its farms and a regulatory Wild West allowed Ukraine to quickly grow into an agriculture drone powerhouse.

It can be to your benefit to provide these little helpers with a friendly environment. Bees don't travel far to forage for ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many natural plant products are ancestry-specific and occur only in ...

Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery ...