Insects and lab-made animal protein have the potential to be far less damaging to the environment. And because pets tend to ...

When creepy crawlies find their way into your home, grabbing a shoe or a bottle of bug spray is a natural response. But what ...

If you garden without pesticides, one of the best ways to manage pests is by keeping your plants healthy and encouraging ...

The majority of insects are considered beneficial or harmless. Of course, those are the ones we want to have hanging around.

What flowers or plants can I plant to attract hummingbirds?  —Bruce Palmer, Algonquin Seeing a hummingbird is always a ...

We are intending to, at the end, have a value chain where you have the production, the harvesting, as well as the sales of ...

It’s garden season. All the trees, bushes and pretty flowers in my backyard look so innocent. But I have learned – the hard way – that they are out to get me. They are a well-organized crime family, ...

Grumpy helps a reader kill weeds in the garden. Plus, a tip for killing stink bugs. "What can I use other than Roundup to kill weeds, especially around my flower garden where the Bermuda grass likes ...

Julian Shepersky created his first genetically unique carnivorous plant as a sophomore at Albany High School. Now he has several hundred plants, which he has to leave behind when he goes to college.

It’s still a hard life, Smitchger said. Right now, he’s worried about drought after particularly dry months in May and June.

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Planting Edmonds is a monthly column written by and for local gardeners. For as long as I can remember, I have been wandering ...