All natural pest control is possible when you have the right balance of insects in your garden, and there's one 'pest' that ...

Everyone has seen ladybugs in the garden and in the house. Ladybugs are those cute red bugs with black dots on their bodies. In the house, they are just trying to find a warm place, often in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many creepy crawlers that we wish we didn't see in our backyards. Blister beetles come to mind. But people are usually happy to see ladybugs. With their vibrant red or orange hues adorned ...

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, ...

Most ladybugs in North America are beneficial as both adults and larvae, feeding primarily on aphids. If aphids are limited, ladybug adults and larvae may feed on the eggs of moths and beetles, mites, ...

Let’s take some time to learn more about one of our much-adored garden inhabitants: the lady beetle or ladybird beetle, commonly referred to as the ladybug. The name “lady beetle” originated during ...

To some casual observers, ladybugs (or lady beetles) are colorful symbols of good luck — harbingers of fortune and fame. Gardeners value them for their utility as ravenous insects that prey upon plant ...

Ladybugs provide excellent pest control against small insects. To bring more of these fascinating bugs to your garden, you'll ...