To fit more food in their stomachs, some flies try to reduce the liquid in what they have already eaten. They regurgitate ...

Give your pomegranate tree the perfect garden partners. These companion plants — from shrubs to herbs — help boost soil health and keep pests away.

Now is the time to begin scouting your fall-planted garden for cabbage worms. The pest targets many vegetables that do well in Fresno this time of year, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale ...

Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a swarm could be the livestock industry’s best defense against a flesh-eating ...

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Parasitoid insects, unlike parasites, kill their hosts by consuming them during their larval stage. Most parasitoids are small wasps and flies, and they infect a wide range of insects and arachnids.

Environmental officials in California’s San Francisco Bay and East Bay areas are releasing millions of sterile fruit flies to reduce the number of pests leading to produce decay. The fruit flies will ...

From gherkins to slicers, cucumbers are among the most widely planted garden crops. Cucumbers are relatively easy to grow but can be plagued by a variety of insect and disease pests. We can encourage ...

Growing a vegetable garden is plenty of work on its own without worrying that your efforts will be ruined by hungry pests. One of the crops where this is the biggest concern is tomatoes, which attract ...

There's hardly a more irritating noise than the sound of a fly buzzing around your head. These tiny insects have the uncanny ability to track down humans and nimbly dodge our attempts to swat them ...

Welcome to Meet Our Little Neighbors, an occasional series about the little guys who live among and around us, but rarely get the attention they deserve. Recently when a fly barged into my home, ...