Attracting Beneficial Insects To Your Garden

If you are making the switch to organic gardening, you may be concerned about losing plants to insect pests. In the short run, this is likely to occur. However, established organic gardens typically lose...

Bee, Wasp, or Yellow Jacket?

I have to confess, it's a huge pet peeve of mine when people call wasps and yellow jackets "bees." I'm not even a beekeeper, I guess it just upsets me because it gives bees a bad rap... and they're having...

Gardening and Companion Planting

This is a list of plants used for Companion Planting.

Insect Foe -- Aphids

In other articles I've told you about certain insect foes of man, such as mosquitoes, flies, bees, ants, and various kinds of beetles. There is another kind of insect that people hear a lot about when they...

A Melancholy Bug

Certainly no one can deny that the world is facing some great problems, yet we'd had one problem since the beginning, that may prove to be the greatest problem of all. Physically, we must master the insect,...

Companion Planting for Organic Gardening

  One way to have a more successful vegetable garden with less work and chemicals is companion gardening. Companion gardening is a method of grouping plants together that help each other. Native...

How to Attract Lightning Bugs

The Lightning bug also known as a firefly is actually a member of the beetle family. They are Bio-luminescent, which means they have the ability to produce light. Not only are the beetles themselves...

Farmscaping

Source: http://benton-franklin.wsu.edu/agriculture/Farmscaping.html "Farmscaping" is a holistic approach to pest control on farms that focuses on increasing biodiversity in order to maintain healthy...

Lighting up the night sky

How To Relocate A Wasp Nest

Wasps are a beneficial insect eating some harmful bugs and pollinating plants. Photographer: Clearly Ambiguous: everystockphoto.com Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ In the...