Everyone has seen ladybugs in the garden and in the house. Ladybugs are those cute red bugs with black dots on their bodies. In the house, they are just trying to find a warm place, often in the ...

Please don’t squish the ladybug larvae on your crape myrtle trees. A ladybug larva explores a scale-infested crape myrtle tree at Virginia Beach’s North End. That is the plea from Pete Schultz, ...

Thirty-five percent of all households in America, or about 42 million households, are growing food at home or in a community garden. That's up 17 percent in the past five years, according to a 2016 ...

If you saw an insect that vaguely resembled a tiny alligator on one of your plants, would you think that perhaps you should remove it, squish it or run for the spray? You are most likely looking at ...

You can find Part 1 of this series here and Part 2 here. We ended Part 2 with the disappointing finding that the ladybug larvae had disappeared and no pupae were to be found. I feared they died ...

You can find Part 1 of this series here. We ended the last blog post with the discovery of a clump of ladybug eggs on a stem of aphid-infested goldenrod. A ladybug laid her eggs on an aphid-infested ...

Common name: Ladybug, lady beetle or ladybird beetle. Latin name: Coccinellidae spp. Description: Ladybugs are the most familiar and widely recognized predators of garden pests. Almost 200 species can ...

Let’s take some time to learn more about one of our much-adored garden inhabitants: the lady beetle or ladybird beetle, commonly referred to as the ladybug. The name “lady beetle” originated during ...