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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ladybugs may be the cutest insects around, but they don’t start off that way. Also called lady beetles or ladybirds, they pop out of their eggs as prickly mini-monsters with an insatiable hunger for ...

While it's true that some species of ladybug are considered pests, native species could be called the opposite of pests. Ladybugs (also called ladybeetles since they are actually beetles) are apex ...

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 ...

Every spring, I see spiny bugs that look like tiny alligators. They spend all day chomping up other insects outside my window. I asked my friend Rich Zack about them. He’s an insect scientist 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 ...