If your outdoor time spent with family and friends is being ruined by annoying pests, adding aromatic plants can improve your ...

Despite our best efforts to safeguard our gardens, aphids can sometimes prove troublesome. For those unfamiliar with these ...

It is another flower to plant in a vegetable garden to deter pests, including slugs, snails, and squash bugs, and attract beneficial insects that eat pests and pollinate flowers.

ITHACA, N.Y. -- When some insects zero in on a flower for nectar, their ultraviolet vision is guided by a bull's-eye "painted" on the plant by chemical compounds. Now, chemical ecologists at ...

A. Although the population of insects varies from year to year, roses are nearly always victims of Japanese beetles. Several other insects also target roses, including leaf-cutter bees, rose curculio, ...

Both plants and insects existed on Earth for millions of years before flowering flora (angiosperms) came along. Now, around 90% of plants are of the flowering kind that rely on pollination.

ITHACA, N.Y. -- When some insects zero in on a flower for nectar, their ultraviolet vision is guided by a bull's-eye "painted" on the plant by chemical compounds.

A one-of-its-kind flower species in Greece mimics the smell of rotting insects to attract and trap flies in order use their pollination services. Photo by T. Rupp, B. Oelschlägel, K. Rabitsch et al.