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 ...

Yellow leaves don't always mean drought stress. It's also a sign of potential lace-bug damage -- a problem that's been common ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have not been following my tweets, the leaf-footed plant bug that infests pomegranates, pistachios, tomatoes and almonds was reported to me about a month ago. The bugs’ numbers should be ...

Many birch leaves in Fairbanks and Anchorage are going from green to brown as the result of an insect infestation. U.S. Forest Service entomologist Stephen Burr in Fairbanks says a leaf mining bug ...

Researchers believe the noisy yard tools negatively affect small creatures and their habitats, therefore should be used less frequently Noisy leaf blowers may be bugging more than just your neighbors.

Q: The last couple of years, the fruit on my pom tree gets brown spots, and it is rotten inside. Any ideas? A: Yes, it’s likely that insects are feeding on your pomegranate fruit and the feeding ...

The matador bug’s flamboyant leg-waving puzzled scientists for years, with early guesses pointing to courtship. But ...

Silly looking leaf-footed bugs (Leptoglossus phyllopus) have arrived to dine on my tomatoes. Some of the spidery sepals that perch like hats on tomatoes looked like they had multiplied several times ...