Many people believe that all insects are harmful pests, but the fact is that most insects areharmless and some are actually beneficial. There are nearly one million known species of insects on the ...

Join the Monroe Garden Club at 1 p.m. Monday, March 13, to learn about good and bad garden insects. Master Gardener Laura Cooper will speak on “Good Bugs/Bad Bugs.” She’ll help you identify beneficial ...

With the arrival of March, we are full of great ideas and optimism for the upcoming season. True gardeners know that, despite all of the plans we can make, there will be challenges along the way.

Stink bugs get an understandably bad rap, thanks to their smelly defense mechanism. Here's how to identify the harmful ones ...

Insecticides don't discriminate between "good" guys and "bad" guys in the landscape. Always use the softest effective options and apply carefully to protect pollinators and beneficial predators in the ...

From your picture (see below), it looks like something is eating the leaves between the veins (an inconvenient process called “skeletonization”). This is most likely caused by insects, and several ...

Bugs have long been considered as creepy-crawlies and bothersome at backyard barbecues. But don’t squish them until you have identified them. Some of the worst enemies for Central Texas gardens are ...

Bugs are the flying and crawling critters you find in your garden. Scientists divide them into groups. The largest group is insects, such as butterflies, bees and beetles, which have three pairs of ...