Ladybugs are our secret weapon in the yard ...

Ladybugs are adored insects that provide effective natural pest control for gardens. Their voracious appetites, especially as ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimise reproduction, making pollination one of nature’s most important processes. Bees are usually the first insects to ...

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in ...

Many plants and crops rely on insects to pollinate them so they can reproduce. A new study has shown that several flowering plants from the group Euonymus are pollinated by fungus gnats, a dipteran ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as ...

If you're trying to optimize the growth of your summer squash, consider growing any one of these stellar plants along with ...

Every growing season brings the same battle. Tender leaves attract hungry insects, tomatoes suddenly look like an all-you-can ...