Indigenous people have utilized elderberry for centuries – harvesting berries for nutrition, utilizing hollow stems for tools ...

If you have noticed ragged, irregular holes in your hostas or other broad-leaf garden plants, you may be dealing with garden slugs.

Last week was National Pollinator Week, which celebrates the importance of insects, birds and other animals that pollinate flowers.

Every gardener will inevitably have to get rid of aphids at some point or another. These common pests don't discriminate when it comes to the type of plants they target, so it's essential to quickly ...

The flowers of elderberry produce only pollen, thus limiting the appeal to insects. Bees, flies, and beetles utilize the plant as a food source, including honeybees, small carpenter bees, halictid ...

The flowers of elderberry produce only pollen, thus limiting the appeal to insects. Bees, flies and beetles utilize the plant as a food source, including honeybees, small carpenter bees, halictid bees ...

For example, lady bugs, lacewings and syrphid flies. “With lady bugs and some of the others, you can actually purchase these to release into your garden to eat aphids. The thing about releasing ...

Beneficial insect predators include ladybugs, minute pirate bugs, syrphid fly larvae, lacewing larvae, and parasitoid wasps. People often want to order these bugs from a garden catalog, but a more ...

Bees, flies and beetles utilize the plant as a food source, including honeybees, small carpenter bees, halictid bees, syrphid flies, tumbling flower beetles and scarab beetles.

4. Hoverflies (Syrphid Flies) Hoverflies look like small bees, but don’t sting—and they’re excellent pollinators.