Have you ever noticed a small, orange-and-black critters congregating on your summer vegetable plants? Similarly, have you encountered a larger one that appears to be wearing bell bottom pants? A ...

DEAR NEIL: These insects have appeared on our green tomatoes. We’ve never seen them before. What should we do? Dear Reader: These are immature leaf-footed bugs (Leptoglossus phyllopus), close ...

While you're more likely to have bug problems with organic lettuce, you need to know how to spot possible insects on any kind ...

Stink bugs and leaf footed bugs are close cousins in biology and crime. They have similar life cycles. Both kinds of bugs have shield shaped bodies, stink glands and piercing-sucking mouth parts. They ...

Q: I was reading up on controlling the leaf-footed plant bugs on my pistachio and almond trees and came across a recommendation by the University of California to use a pesticide containing bifenthrin ...

Aquilegia, also called columbine, is an attractive and easy plant to grow in the garden. Although there is a native species, the most common ones grown are the European types. They have been ...

Lots of landscape plants are looking wilted, yellowed, and generally worse-for-wear these days, thanks to the long streak of hot, dry, late-summer weather. However, not all of the plant damage can be ...