Don't spray blindly. Learn how to identify the insects, weeds, and animals causing damage to your home garden.

Unfortunately, many pests love fruit trees and can easily damage leaves and spoil harvests. However, there are ways to get rid of these problematic visitors—without using harmful pesticides. For ...

Common tree pests fall into three main categories: defoliators such as tent caterpillars that eat leaves, borers like emerald ash borer that attack the wood of the tree, and sap suckers like scale ...

Angela Mech, assistant professor of Entomology at University of Maine, has been leading the research for the i-Tree pest predictor. Mech specializes in invasive forest insects. University of Maine ...

Scientists will spend the next three years looking at the best, environmentally-friendly, ways to deal with the pest.

As wonderful as the shade of old neighborhood trees can be, certain tree types are especially at risk of an infestation ...

A study in the journal Forests highlights the critical need for understanding and managing nonnative forest specialist and generalist pests. "We classify pests for easier management; it's just a ...

In between beach days and backyard barbecues, the end of summer is a good time to examine your trees for signs of hazardous invasive insects. The USDA has named August as Tree Check Month to encourage ...

The arrival of new plant pests and diseases is likely to severely damage UK trees and woodlands in the coming decades, new research shows. The ash dieback epidemic prompted the government to assess ...

The hemlock woolly adelgid, a nonnative invasive insect and specialist, has killed millions of hemlock trees in the U.S., highlighting the potential threat and impact such pests can have on our ...