Mayflies are harmless, but that doesn't mean they won't ruin your spring or summer evening outdoors. Tackle them humanely with some simple landscaping fixes.

While beneficial to the environment, cicada killer wasps can be understandably scary to see in your yard. Here's what to do ...

Do you know what you get when two peas fight? Black-eyed peas. Even if vegetables can’t fight, there’s plenty of tension around the yard and garden from insects and diseases. Insects have been out in ...

Many hoped that one silver lining from the winter storm last year would be less insect pests, but unfortunately many seemed worse than ever – grasshoppers, caterpillars and aphids had particularly ...

Last week, L.J. asked about the peculiar discolorations in a lawn that had been beautiful and is now mottled with lots of yellowing spots in the turf. To me, the photo showed what looked like a fungal ...

Learn how to attract more robins to your yard with the right food, water, plants, and nesting spaces to keep them coming back ...

As winter phases into spring across the U.S., gardeners are laying in supplies and making plans. Meanwhile, as the weather warms, common garden insects such as bees, beetles, and butterflies will ...

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This is the time of migration triggered by later sunrises and earlier sunsets, mostly seen with birds now, especially hawks, kestrels and bald eagles at Hawk Ridge. Other raptors — geese, blackbirds, ...

A Red Feeder in the Yard Wasn't Enough to Bring Hummingbirds Back Until Someone Tried This ...

A sunflower plant is seen at a sunflower sanctuary maintained by local farmers in the municipality of Tututepec in Oaxaca for the benefit of insects. (Jose De Jesus Cortes/Reuters) Perspective by ...