These insects and arachnids might startle you or send shivers down your spine, but there's no need to worry about these bugs—not too much, anyway.

Handpicking and trapping pests are often the first steps in managing bad bugs in gardens. With a bit of patience, they can be removed from plants by hand, especially if visible to the naked eye.

On this week's episode of the Gardening Tips podcast, the Chicago Botanic Garden's Lisa Hilgenberg talks about how to support insects in your garden. Every Saturday, listen to a new episode of the ...

We now know that these “beneficials” can be easily wiped from our garden through the indiscriminate use of pesticides that don’t discriminate between the good bugs and the bad ones.

Invasive plants (i.e. weeds) have been on the upswing lately as a threat to take over desirable plants, out-compete farm crops, and disturb the fragile health of ecosystems.

Are you a good bug or a bad bug? Not all insects we find in our gardens are pests. In fact, most insects aren’t pests at all. Across the world, 95% of all animals are invertebrates; 80% of all ...

The stakes have gotten higher in the $50-billion-plus global crop protection industry. Growers and consumers want insecticides that only harm the bad bugs – not the beneficials, like bees, nor the ...