Japanese beetles are an unwelcome sight, but many other garden beetles are good bugs worth welcoming to your yard.

Soldier beetles hunt for aphids and other small insect pests in marigolds, goldenrod, yarrow, daisies and other flowering plants.(Howard Garrett / Special Contributor) Today, it’s beetle talk. Most ...

Above: lady beetles are being released into Purdue greenhouses as a biological control agent. Photo by Purdue University. Some insects are pests, but not all insects are bad. Overwhelmingly, the ...

At N.C. State Extension we teach and encourage the practice of Integrated Pest Management in horticulture. As the name suggests, Integrated Pest Management is a pest control practice that integrates ...

The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web -- ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ground beetle live in ...