Learn how to identify pest damage in the garden. Dr. Tom Kuhar visits the Virginia Home Grown set to explain how to identify different kinds of pest damage in the garden and talk about safe control ...

Biological control is emerging as a sustainable alternative to chemical pesticides in agricultural ecosystems, with predatory insects playing a central role in suppressing pest populations. This ...

Creamy-colored and just a couple of centimeters long, the cotton bollworm doesn’t look like much. But around the world, this highly mobile moth has farmers breaking out in a sweat. Females can lay ...

Key Points Diatomaceous Earth is an all-natural pest control method that must make contact with pests to be effective.DE is a general pesticide, meaning it can kill healthy pollinators and other ...

An improved method for sustainable pest control using "super-sexed" but sterile male insects to copulate with female ones is being developed by agricultural researchers in Israel. The scientists thus ...