Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In late August, there is a vast assortment of insect action in our gardens, and it is worth a listen and a watch to see what is happening. The cicadas are ...

What's bugging your garden - and is it a pest or a protector? Good field guides will help you find out. The University of California Press publishes good ones: California Insects by Jerry Powell (of ...

CORVALLIS – You look around the garden and see aphids suck the life out of your rose buds, flea beetles chomp on the cauliflower and cabbage butterflies lay eggs that will turn into voracious ...

I have noticed chewed and discolored leaves on my shrubs but I don’t find any bugs. What could be causing this damage? It could be that you are not looking at the right time or the right place. Or the ...

Your garden shed should be a fortress of lawnmowers, fertilizer bags, and carefully stacked pots. Yet, lurking in the shadows are some of nature’s tiniest Houdinis—rodents with ambition, determination ...

Q: Can you identify a bug on my vegetable leaves? It had six legs, but the body was spikey and black with orange going down the back. Do I need to worry about it? A: The insect is likely a larval form ...

Gardeners struggle with a lot of problems, from uncooperative weather to faulty irrigation, but perhaps the biggest trouble gardeners say they have is keeping rodents out of the garden and away from ...

Santa Cruz County pest control provider outlines how integrated services help address growing demand for timely ...

Often times, homeowners wake to find holes in their lawn (usually after a weekend of hard work in the yard). Sometimes it is very easy to identify the animal responsible for the yard damage and remedy ...

Identifying laboratory rodents as a group may be sufficient if all the animals are to receive the same treatment and/or manipulation and if individual variations in response are not to be recorded ...

Encountering a garden snake is often a sign of a healthy ecosystem, with many species being harmless and beneficial pest controllers. From the distinctive grass snake to the legless lizard slow worm, ...