Discussing the use of pesticides in the garden can generate strong reactions in some gardeners. Used properly, pesticides can be helpful, but if overused or used improperly, they can be harmful to the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 15, 2021) Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a 60-year-old approach to agricultural practice that, when first conceived and implemented, had among its goals a significant ...

Our rainy spring weather has been great for our gardens — but may also have encouraged some unwelcome garden visitors, including snails and slugs. Snails and slugs are similar in structure and biology ...

The NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets, in collaboration with Cornell Integrated Pest Management (Cornell IPM), has ...

It’s the beginning of 2025 and the cusp of another year of gardening. Gardening has seasons where plants grow best, flowers bloom, vegetables provide their fruit, and pests invade your garden. Many of ...

Colorado gardeners deal with a changing list of weeds and pests, including dandelions, bindweed and Japanese beetles. While ...

Integrated pest management is a strategy to use a variety of common practices to maintain pest pressure or populations below levels considered damaging to plants or causing economic loss. The most ...

Choosing between Terminix and Orkin is tough. We compare their pricing and services to help you pick the right one.

Not many people like bugs or rats or weeds. Humans have always dealt with pests .... in their food, in their clothing, on their animals and on themselves. Egyptian mummies had lice attached to hair ...