While it's true that some species of ladybug are considered pests, native species could be called the opposite of pests. Ladybugs (also called ladybeetles since they are actually beetles) are apex ...

Please don’t squish the ladybug larvae on your crape myrtle trees. A ladybug larva explores a scale-infested crape myrtle tree at Virginia Beach’s North End. That is the plea from Pete Schultz, ...

Thirty-five percent of all households in America, or about 42 million households, are growing food at home or in a community garden. That's up 17 percent in the past five years, according to a 2016 ...

If you saw an insect that vaguely resembled a tiny alligator on one of your plants, would you think that perhaps you should remove it, squish it or run for the spray? You are most likely looking at ...

Ryan Pankau talks to ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about why lady bugs are everywhere during this time of year Have you noticed ladybugs appearing in large numbers around your home or garden ...

You can find Part 1 of this series here. We ended the last blog post with the discovery of a clump of ladybug eggs on a stem of aphid-infested goldenrod. A ladybug laid her eggs on an aphid-infested ...

Common name: Ladybug, lady beetle or ladybird beetle. Latin name: Coccinellidae spp. Description: Ladybugs are the most familiar and widely recognized predators of garden pests. Almost 200 species can ...

Does it ever seem that you look at one of the plants in your garden and it’s totally fine, and then the next time you look at it, it’s covered with aphids? That could be because aphid populations can ...

Ladybugs may be the cutest insects around, but they don’t start off that way. Also called lady beetles or ladybirds, they pop out of their eggs as prickly mini-monsters with an insatiable hunger for ...