Q: I was wondering why some of my houseplants ... at the roots, there were a lot of white things that might have been bugs in the soil. What should I do? A: It sounds like insects and not a fungus, ...

Summer is the perfect time to enjoy your garden in full bloom, but pesky insects can sometimes turn your paradise into a ...

This time of the year brings a 'mass hatching' of daddy long legs and combined with wet, cold conditions and moisture in the ...

There are a few approaches to treating an outbreak. First, quarantine the plant. If you’re not too squeamish, just squish all ...

Three-quarters of the mature whitebark pines in Yellowstone National Park are now dead—a blow to grizzly bears, which eat the seeds in ... pine beetle is the bad bug of the bunch.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a honeybee. In many ways, ...

Mexican butterworts are houseplants which stay indoors year-round, however, Gierys cultivates other types of carnivorous ...

Like many indoor-plant ... bug-control company that boasts of having de-pested the Calvin Coolidge White House in 1924. They’re an especially hard-wearing option: They’re the brand used at my ...

reminds us, plants ... roots, boiled as well, to treat dizziness and calm upset stomachs. Later on, farmers also found a use ...

Central America’s Mesoamerican Reef is half the length of its famous Australian counterpart but in many ways more remarkable.

With tentacles that trap and digest insects, the plant is one of a dozen or so meat-eating plants native to ... up from the soil through their roots; carnivorous plants have evolved to feed ...

These good guys work symbiotically with plants, helping roots soak ... by beneficial insects if you just wait a week or two for them to arrive. Ladybugs and lacewings love eating aphids, for ...