I love keeping live (and easy-to-care-for) houseplants throughout my home. However, I don't love the pesky gnats and flies that they can sometimes attract. Enter Mosqueda Fruit Fly Traps. I first came ...

I don’t think a lot about plant pathogens, but I probably should. They can have a profound effect on our food supply, for example. The plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum colonizes the xylem of ...

My indoor plant obsession led to a war between gnats and myself over who lives in this apartment. With Garsum sticky traps, I’m winning. Like so many others during the start of the pandemic, I got bit ...

Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, is a holistic approach that gardeners can use to reduce pesticides when managing insects, ...

RALEIGH – Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that “sticky” hairlike structures on tobacco leaves can help attract beneficial insects that scavenge on other insects trapped on ...

The twitchy tentacles of a sundew can catapult prey into the carnivorous plant's sticky traps in a fraction of a second, researchers say. These fast-moving snares are among the quickest seen yet in ...

Soil is full of microbes. Specialized border cells at the outer surface of plant roots fight off these microbes as the roots penetrate the soil in search of water and nutrients. A study published on ...

There's good news for those who fear things that bite in the night. Bed bugs could one day be captured using artificial surfaces that mimic bean leaves, researchers say. Recently, though, researchers ...

Soil is full of microbes. Specialized border cells at the outer surface of plant roots fight off these microbes as the roots penetrate the soil in search of water and nutrients. A new study reveals ...