Every year, thousands of ladybugs converge on an otherwise unremarkable stretch of trail deep inside Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park. They blanket tree trunks and traverse fence posts.

Apart from aphids, ladybugs are also fond of mealybugs, mites, thrips, and whiteflies. So, the more you can do to attract these useful insects to your yard, the healthier your fruit trees are ...

Silver fish, grasshoppers, mantids and cockroaches are examples of these insects. Their young – called nymphs – look like ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Every autumn, ladybugs (which are really lady beetles) seem to swarm near or even inside some homes. There can be so many of them that they stain walls and make a room smell really bad.

Many of the helpful, aphid-eating insects were released in Victoria Park on Thursday morning, while others were given out to ...

This year was the largest ladybug release to date — a whopping 144,000 ladybugs found new homes among the mall’s collection of plants, ranging from an orange tree to a pineapple plant ...

They might look similar, but there are differences between a ladybug and the Asian lady beetle. ... plant trees that will grow up to shade the south and west sides of the house.