News flash gardeners. We have a new, comprehensive resource to help manage bugs in the vegetable garden. Susan Mulvihill, my Spokesman-Review colleague and co-author with me of the “Northwest Garden’s ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various eco-friendly pest management strategies, you will encourage songbirds, ...

Two new books can serve as guides for homeowners and gardeners coping with the pestilence of snakes, spiders, crabgrass, termites, bedbugs, hornworms and vine borers. Dead Snails Leave No Trails (Ten ...

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. A first of its kind, this book ...

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme of the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture plays a key role in the dissemination of nuclear and related technology information ...

THE first edition of the author's “Insects Injurious to Staple Crops” was published ten years ago. The advances made during the past decade have been such that it was considered necessary to rewrite ...

According to Hodges, silverfish tend to invade your home in winter due to their love of damp, cold places. He cautions that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Beneficial insects are a gardener’s best friend. They break down into two basic groups: predators and parasites. Research shows that some plants, when ...

Howard Garrett / Special Contributor Green stink bugs and the pretty little red-bellied ones are pests. Both are true bugs, as opposed to beetles, and do damage to plants. They sometimes need controls ...

Lizzy Lowe is on the board of the Australian Entomological Society. She has received funding from the American Arachnological Society and the NSW Linnean society. Cameron Webb and the Department of ...