Ask any vegetable gardener about beans and pull up a chair. Some grow lima beans, dry beans or wax beans but almost every home garden has a patch of green beans. Beans grow quickly and don't need much ...

When I was a kid, I hated picking beans. It was hot, humid, and eventually, I was sunburned from picking them. The work was intense, because my sister and I put off picking them until the bounty was ...

Mexican bean beetles are especially problematic in the rainy areas of the East, and tend to pose fewer problems in dry climates. This article is part of ourOrganic Pest Control Series, which includes ...

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various eco-friendly pest management strategies, you will encourage songbirds, ...

There are nearly 1 million known insect species on Earth, and just 2% of these insects are harmful to plants, animals or humans. Managing insects in the vegetable garden and home landscape requires an ...

Columnist Don Kinzler answers questions about what may be causing holes in rose and bean leaves and how to determine how recent, brief rainfalls affect how much we should water our plants and lawns ...

A new rearing method used to maintain a laboratory colony of western bean cutworm has allowed researchers to gather the first reported data for the insect's susceptibility to Bt Cry toxins using ...

Q: How do I know if my plants have thrips? My oranges have strange scars on the rind, but I can’t see any bugs. Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long) slender insects that caus ...

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...